The two contending planes featured in "Battle of the X-Planes" make use of radically different wing designs: one uses a triangular-shaped delta wing; the other, traditional wings. Each design has its ...

The following question, "How does an airfoil create lift?" comes from Ms. Gillespie's class. I love watching airplanes take off at the airport. I think it’s an amazing feat of human engineering that ...

Aerodynamic shape optimization and design sits at the intersection of fluid mechanics, computational modelling and advanced optimisation algorithms. This field seeks to refine the contours of ...