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How Aircraft Tails Have Changed over Time

Fighter plane tails were dramatically reshaped after the advent of “fly-by-wire” controls, rendering the aircraft’s stability irrelevant.
Back in 2016 we looked at an interesting project out of Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where researchers had taken inspiration from birds to produce a feathered drone ...
Engineers have developed a drone with a feathered wing and tail that give it unprecedented flight agility. Engineers have developed a drone with a feathered wing and tail that give it unprecedented ...
SpaceX Raptor 3 is an improved and more powerful rocket enigine. It has reached 350 bar of pressure and 269 tons of thrust. Raptor 2 engines were achieving 230 tf (510,000 lbf) of thrust consistently ...
The fastest any human has ever run on record was Usain Bolt. He was clocked at a ridiculously quick 27.79 mph (44.72 km/h) when he ran a 9.58-second 100-meter dash. Two-legged robots can run even ...
North Sky Raptor Sanctuary has been nursing birds back to health for a number of years, but six months ago, the rehabilitation center was faced with a unique challenge. They were presented with a red ...