The Wright Brothers studied bird flight before they designed the first airplane. Now modern aircraft fly higher and faster than any bird, yet no manufactured device matches the graceful movements ...

Photos shared to social media claim to depict a swarm of starlings flying through the air often, incredibly, in the shape of ...

Research suggests that free-moving panels on aircraft wings can improve stability, reduce turbulence, and add fuel efficiency.

Imagine you're learning to fly a plane when the unthinkable happens: a bird slams into the window while flying at night.

and gears that would mimic a bird’s muscle and bone, took decades of work by aircraft engineers. The first aircraft capable of varying the sweep of its wings in flight was the Bell X-5 ...

bird-like, in flight. University and industry researchers funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and others are experimenting with wings and helicopter rotors that fold ...

In flight, wings appear translucent. Adult: one molt per year, but fresh fall adults look very different from summer birds. On freshly molted birds, black plumage has white spots all over ...

Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings. Birds are found worldwide and ...

The “three-dimensional pattern of (wing) movement” has been a key point of study in ... but is shifting his focus to the study of bird flight. In this research, he is using both live birds and robots ...