The article debunks the "on the step" theory for optimizing cruise flight, explaining that a proper climb-to-cruise transition involves stabilizing airspeed before setting desired cruise power.

Flapping and soaring: The tips of pelicans' wings turn down when they fly near the surface of water. Aerodynamics experts are trying to understand why. (Courtesy: iStock/Aschen) For human-built ...

Presents experimental flight data for validation and verification of modelled dynamics, thus illustrating the deficiencies and difficulties associated with modelling flapping-wing flight Derives a new ...

Researchers shed light on the way Quetzalcoatlus would have flown, finding that the dinosaur's flying dynamics were actually very different to how it has been depicted in popular culture. One of the ...

Flight dynamics examines the forces and moments that govern the motion of vehicles through air and, by extension, other fluids. At its core lie the equations of motion formulated in body-fixed axes, ...