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 ...

Northrop Grumman subsidiary Scaled Composites revealed the first glimpse of its Model 401 experimental prototype on Oct. 11, 2017. Little is known about the aircraft, which seems to have ...

Building a DHC2 Beaver model involves assembling the fuselage, wings, tail section, and other structural components. Careful ...

When Leonardo HD wanted to test the aerodynamic soundness of its AW609 tilt-rotor aircraft, it tapped CRP Technology to create a 3D-printed model of the aircraft to run wind tunnel tests. CRP created ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...