YAHOO.COM - A Canadian university student has done what Leonardo da Vinci had only dreamt of: Piloted a human-powered "wing-flapping" plane! Called an ornithopter, and the inspiration for modern day ...

Since the dawn of aviation, birds have been an inspiration for visionaries of flight. And now, engineers are once again looking to feathered friends to inspire the next generation of aircraft wings.

If even the tiniest bit of turbulence during a flight has you reaching for the barf bag, then you’ll never want to climb aboard this Russian contraption that uses flapping wings to take flight. But it ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Incredible video footage shows a remote-controlled plane which could revolutionise flying soaring through the air. AlbatrossOne, inspired by the marine bird of the same name, could help to stop ...

A drone prototype that mimics the aerobatic manoeuvres of one of the world's fastest birds, the swift, is being developed by an international team of engineers in the latest example of biologically ...

Airbus has developed a small-scale aircraft with flapping wing-tips that mimic the movement of an albatross. AlbatrossOne, a carbon-fibre concept plane developed by the planemaker’s engineers, has ...