aerodynamics
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Watch This In-Depth Tour of the SR-71 Blackbird’s Jet Engine
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is widely known as the fastest plane to ever take to the sky. It set a ground speed record of 3,529 km/h all the way back in July of 1976. That may not even be its true top speed: Another Blackbird pilot claimed to hit Mach 3.5 (or nearly 4,345 km/h)…
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Amazing Airborne Microchips are the Tiniest Human-Built Objects to Take Flight
Like helicopter seeds falling slowly towards the ground, these newly created “microfliers” catch the wind to achieve unpowered controlled flight.
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Russian Engineers Supersized a Dragonfly With This Over-the-Top Flapping Wing Plane
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 demonstrates that Mother Nature’s designs can be supersized to one day revolutionise air travel.
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This Is The Most Aerodynamic Bike, According To AI
Competitors at this year’s World Human Powered Speed Challenge are going to have to contend with this—a bullet-shaped bike designed by an artificially intelligent software program.