A throwback to early 20th Century aviation may hold the key to eliminating the sonic boom - at least according to researchers at MIT and Stanford University. Strongly reminiscent of biplanes still in ...
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Combat Aircraft That Were Designed for Wars That Never Happened
History has shown that wars are capable of evolving faster than aircraft design cycles. Platforms optimized for nuclear ...
A research team has developed a new biplane concept that could cut down sonic booms by half, and potentially reduce fuel consumption as well. A research team has developed a new biplane concept that ...
Biplanes once ruled the skies in the pioneering days of aviation and World War I. Now the old aircraft design could make a comeback in the silent supersonic jets of tomorrow. A newer version of the ...
Biplanes once ruled the skies in the pioneering days of aviation and World War I. Now the old aircraft design could make a comeback in the silent supersonic jets of tomorrow. A newer version of the ...
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Why Do People Still Fly Biplanes?
The concept still demonstrates its strong, lightweight structure and excellent maneuverability at low speed. Many people are aware—consciously or instinctively—that the world’s first successful ...
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Very Bizarre Aircraft from World War 2
The go-to aircraft when it comes to ridiculing Second World War German aircraft design, the Bv 141 was an extremely efficient ...
Qiqi Wang (MIT), Rui Hu (MIT) and Antony Jameson (Stanford) have shown through a computer model that a modified biplane can, in fact, produce significantly less drag than a conventional single-wing ...
Researchers tested 700 wing configurations to come up with a biplane design - used by most aircraft in the early years of flying - to reduce the sonic boom that restricted earlier flights of the ...
Biplanes once ruled the skies in the pioneering days of aviation and World War I. Now the old aircraft design could make a comeback in the silent supersonic jets of tomorrow. A newer version of the ...
Biplanes once ruled the skies in the pioneering days of aviation and World War I. Now the old aircraft design could make a comeback in the silent supersonic jets of tomorrow. A newer version of the ...
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