Airbus engineers have developed a scale-model airplane with the first in-flight, flapping wing-tips that could revolutionize aircraft wing-design. The aerospace giant has drawn on nature to develop ...

Man has long tried to imitate birds in building all types of aircraft, to varying degrees of success. A new concept aircraft from Airbus, now in its second stage of testing, is taking biomimicry to a ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. William Hawley Bowlus offered the BA-100 Baby Albatross as a series of builders kits advertised in popular magazines ...

750km zero-emission flights from 2028: Electron 5 mimics the albatross for unmatched efficiency: large wings, dynamic body, and bird-eye windows. Taking inspiration from the Albatross, our Electron 5 ...

Applied Aeronautics announces its latest Albatross UAV aircraft fully integrating Iris Automation’s advanced detect and avoid Casia solution for BVLOS flights. The Albatross UAV starts at US$7,000, ...

Taking their cues from the birds, Airbus engineers have flown a scale-model airplane that incorporates flapping wing-tips. Based on the structure of the albatross wing, the remote-controlled ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Twenty-one fertilized Laysan albatross eggs have been taken from a colony on Kauai, where the protected birds are an aircraft strike hazard. The colony is located next to ...

A Kansas State University engineering design team is again one of the nation's best. The SAE Aero Design Team's model aircraft, the Purple Albatross, placed second overall in the regular class event ...

In November 2024 chief minister Lia Finocchiaro torched the previous Labor government for using NT taxpayer’s money to attract the project to the Territory. She said instead of developing seaplanes in ...

Airplane designers are getting new ideas from the albatross, long considered a master of efficient flight. Through a method called dynamic soaring, the bird—with a wingspan of up to 12 feet (3.7 ...