Subaru has indeed made airplanes — and still does. The story starts just 14 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight in 1903 — one of the top moments in aviation history — when engineer ...

Airplanes create the lines of water vapor when they fly through high altitude humidity zones. An MIT study from March of this year found that contrails account for just over a third of the ...

Learn how to create homemade propellers for a variety of projects, including toys, helicopters, and airplanes. This video demonstrates simple steps to build functional propellers using basic ...

The SR-71 with its blended wing body design. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael Haggerty, US Air Force, 1988) Ask someone to picture an airplane and they’re likely to think of what is essentially a ...

New tech will make our airplanes safer Odysight.ai’s technology allows for constant monitoring of aircraft, sending alerts in case of malfunctions that could lead to accidents. Emergency landing of ...

So, while it’s unlikely airplanes will be made of just plastic in the future, there will a significant amount of fibre reinforced polymer composites in our skies. Follow RTÉ Brainstorm on ...