French entomologist Antoine Magnan wrote that bumblebees "should not be able to fly," as their small wings should ...

For the many wondrous things humans can do, we can't fly on our own. But if we could, how big would our wings be?Of course, ...

Such long wings are difficult to flap, so these birds require windy conditions to power their flight. Less than one percent of the world’s birds are flightless. These species have diverged from the ...

Researchers have developed robotic wings that mimic the movement of butterfly wings using only magnetic fields, with no need ...

Birds’ wings are arguably their most beautiful features ... However, adaptations for flight have changed their bones in some remarkable ways. The major muscles that power avian flight are located in ...

but the power requirements for this mode of flight are also dramatically reduced thanks to those wings on the arms. There are a few downsides to this design, namely that the vertical wing only ...

while most fixed wings will struggle to get past two hours. [Matthew Heiskell] blew these numbers out of the water with a 10 hour 45 minute flight with an RC plane on battery power. Condensed ...