What steps can be taken to mitigate lightning strikes on future aircraft designs? This is what a recent study published in ...

Researchers at the University of Surrey have proposed a computational approach that can provide aerodynamic drag data more ...

Interest in air transportation that is less energy intensive is renewing research in dirigible aircraft like the Zeppelins that we remember from "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." LTA (lighter than ...

R esearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a new physics-based tool that can predict how ...

A new model predicts how lightning would sweep across any airplane, including those with experimental designs. The tool ...

Long before the first airplanes took to the skies, humans had already overcome gravity with the help of airships. Starting with crude hot air balloons, the 18th century saw the development of more ...