A commercial airliner can weigh anywhere from 100,000 pounds to over a million pounds. It is astonishing how such gargantuan weight can not only take off from the ground, but also routinely fly ...

The Joby aircraft has six rotors that allow for vertical ... measure precise distances—and that can map out the shapes of wind features. "The design of this new type of aircraft, paired with ...

Growing understanding of how wind farms can impact local weather and ecosystems a touchy subject for industry at time when ...

Abstract: S.P.I.D.R.E. is a very adaptable and dependable team testing the feasibility of a portable tethered aircraft wind energy generation device. We pride ourselves on our ability to work in ...

Back in 2023 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced yet another program that's supposed to end with the creation of revolutionary aircraft ... Boeing's V/STOL wind tunnel ...

The NASA aircraft model inside the DNW Braunschweig Low-Speed Wind Tunnel (DNW-NWB) with a sensor field for acoustic measurements behind it The NASA aircraft model inside the DNW Braunschweig ...