Airplane designers have long admired how birds reshape their wings for soaring, diving, and maneuvering. Now, a prototype aircraft wing has demonstrated in its first flight tests that its morphing ...

BEIJING: Chinese scientists are designing a morphing aircraft that takes its inspiration from bees, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT). The morphing airplane is ...

China recently verified a new morphing wing structure that can help build future cross-domain aircraft, with an expert saying on Tuesday that the cutting-edge technology is expected to undergo flight ...

India moves closer to next-generation combat aircraft with wings that adjust themselves in flight, boosting stealth, agility ...

What if components in aircraft could morph in response to their external conditions, much like a bird changes the shape of its wings? And what if those components could function like an octopus arm, ...

The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) believes that some day, a single aircraft will achieve the capabilities of three or four different vehicles by radically changing, or ...

(Nanowerk News) Back in June we wrote a Nanowerk Spotlight on NASA nanotechnology research into shape-shifting airplanes. Now the Eurpean Science Foundation is co-organizing an advanced course on ...

Aircraft wing designers have drawn their inspiration from birds since the dawn of aviation. But engineers are still finding ways of improving design based on examples found in the ornithological world ...