Many small unmanned aircraft systems will try to emulate nature to help with increase fuel consumption or mobility. This aircraft is based on the Albatross which in habitats the southern oceans by ...

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams dish up a hot slice of the week’s hardware hacks. We feature a lot of clocks on Hackaday, but few can compare to the mechanical engineering elegance of ...

BANNING, Calif. For years boys and men have been fascinated by handheld gliders. Take them, send them into the wind, and see how long they'll stay in the air. Well, that's been taken up a few notches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaQB16ZaNI4 What is the fastest RC aircraft? Amazingly, gliders. The non-powered planes can, in skilled hands, whip up a speed of over ...

Dynamic soaring is a bio‐inspired flight manoeuvre that enables unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to extend their operational range by utilising naturally occurring wind shear. By executing cyclical ...

The new study published today in Science Advances proves it isn’t just albatrosses that perform the aerial acrobatics needed for dynamic soaring on the windy open ocean. The research shows that sleek ...