May 17 (UPI) --NASA on Friday announced it has created a new digital modeling tool for engineers to simulate conceptual aircraft designs. The new Aviary tool allows researchers to digitally test how ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — In 2018, passengers onboard a flight to Australia experienced a terrifying 10-second nosedive when a vortex trailing their plane crossed into the wake of another flight. The ...

Aircraft system identification is mainly concerned with providing a mathematical description for the aerodynamic forces and moments in terms of relevant measureable quantities such as control surface ...

Researchers at Purdue University have created a turbulence model for vortex collisions that could allow aircraft engineers and designers to build aircraft more capable of handling extreme scenarios.

Measuring the performance of the wind tunnel—not just the model aircraft, but the test apparatus itself—may help researchers at NASA and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und ...

A common issue with modeling complex 1D systems is adding the required detail for complex components that cannot easily be represented through correlations or empirical data. To get the data for these ...

Eugene Kettering, a founder of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, contributed his extensive collection of 624 handcrafted aircraft models, some dating back to the 1930s. After decades on ...

The Model 437 began as a conceptual design, based on the Model 401, exploring a multi-mission low-cost attritable aircraft. The Model 437 Vanguard is a crewed variant of the original concept powered ...