Designed for efficiency, the D8 has a very wide fuselage to provide extra lift and low-swept wings to reduce drag…
Professor Mark Drela (center), chief engineer of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology aircraft design team, helps undergraduate students Nina Siu…
One of the advanced design concepts – the D8 or “double bubble” – is now a subscale model being tested…
Like rivers of liquid water, glaciers flow downhill, with tributaries joining to form larger rivers. But where water rushes, ice…
One of the fascinating aspects of viewing Earth at night is how well the lights show the distribution of people.…
The relatively placid view from the International Space Station belied the potent forces at work in Hurricane Earl as it…
