Fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are huge priorities in the aviation industry – passenger airliners chew through amazing quantities of fuel. Take the Boeing 747, which guzzles somewhere ...

Four years ago, I added wingtip extensions to my homebuilt. Originally, I had built the wing 20 inches shorter than its intended span of 35 feet, intending to add the tips after flight tests. I hoped ...

The dynamics of rotor wakes and the behaviour of tip vortices have emerged as critical areas of investigation in rotorcraft aerodynamics. These phenomena underpin not only the performance and ...