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Topic: flying
Why do geese fly in V formation?
Why do geese fly in a V formation? In this episode of World By Charlie, Charlie Engelman observes some origami geese to better understand how the vortices of air behind their wings shape their signature V-form while f...
The Green Dragontail Butterfly in slow motion
This stunning slow-motion footage of the Green Dragontail Butterfly (Lamproptera meges) was filmed by insect enthusiast Kazuo Unno during a trip to northern Thailand. The dragontails are a species of swallowtail butte...
Hummingbird Battleground in the Talamanca Mountains
The presence of a backyard hummingbird feeder can reveal the competitive nature of hummingbirds. Notorious for chasing each other away from nectar sources, hummingbirds are territorial because they need to stay fueled...
G-AAAH, a typewritten tribute to aviator Amy Johnson
Pioneering English aviator Amy Johnson worked as a typist for a firm of solicitors before becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in 1930. The distance: 18,000 kilometers (around 11,000 miles). ...
Fold ‘N Fly paper airplane instructions & video tutorials
From the prolific Fold’n’Fly database of paper airplanes with easy-to-follow folding instructions, learn how to make The Sprinter Acrobatic Paper Airplane, above, and more than three dozen other fun plane designs. The...
How does a northern flying squirrel ‘fly’?
The Northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) has a special talent of gliding long distances. With bold leaps, these nocturnal, arboreal animals can parachute almost 46 meters (150 feet) between trees thanks to me...
Why can’t some birds fly?
Though the common ancestor of all modern birds could fly, many different bird species have independently lost their flight. Flight can have incredible benefits, especially for escaping predators, hunting and traveling...
Raindrops: What do they really look like?
When you draw raindrops, how do you draw them? Are they tear-shaped with the point at their tops? Is that really what raindrops look like? Dr. Joe Hanson asked that very question. He then tested what happened to water...
Hawk moths and The Art of Staying Stable
Like a hummingbird or a creature from a Hayao Miyazaki film, hawk moths or Sphingidae, are a family of large insects with the magical-looking mastery of hovering in midair. They can also fly backward and keep incredib...
Aerial stocking: Utah wildlife departments drop fish into lakes from airplanes
This low-flying plane isn't just taking a scenic ride. It's about to stock the lake it's flying over with up to 1,000 native fish... by dropping them from the sky. The 2013 GoPro video by Ted Hallows, Supervisor at Ka...
Disney Imagineering’s autonomous robot stunt doubles
To level up the animatronic characters in their parks around the globe, Disney Imagineering has created autonomous robot stunt doubles that can perform "extreme aerial maneuvers 60 feet in the air, making real-time de...
How do crab spiders use their silk to fly?
Some spiders can catch onto breezes that send them flying across oceans and high up into the skies by ballooning—releasing "numerous strands of silk that they spin up to six feet long." And those threads of silk, ...
A hovering robot DRAGON that shape-shifts in flight
At JSK Lab at the University of Tokyo, roboticists have developed a robot called DRAGON, which (obviously) stands for for “Dual-rotor embedded multilink Robot with the Ability of multi-deGree-of-freedom aerial transfo...
1,374 drones dancing over the City Wall of Xi’an, a Guinness World Records
The world record for "most number of unmanned aerial vehicles airborne simultaneously" has been broken by Chinese aerial vehicle company EHang Egret during the rehearsal performance shown above. Their 1,374 quadcopter...
The Mars Helicopter, NASA’s small autonomous rotorcraft demonstration
Launching in 2020 on the belly of NASA's next Mars Rover, this small rotorcraft will be an autonomous asset from above the Red Planet, taking photos of the landscape and scouting for its rover. The pair are scheduled ...
Wingtip vortices made visible with ribbons of white smoke
Ribbons of twisting smoke trails twirl in the air as an old British Hawker Sea Fury fighter aircraft flies over a runway in Ione, California. Dennis Sanders of Sanders Aeronautics pilots the plane as Elliot Seguin fil...
The Bat Volcano of Calakmul, Mexico
The Bat Volcano of Calakmul, Mexico is not actually a volcano, and it might be more like a tornado, but it's famously called Volcán de los Murciélagos. In Calakmul, there's a limestone cave full of almost four million...
The Paper Airplane Guy demonstrates how to fold five paper stunt planes
John Collins is The Paper Airplane Guy thanks to his years of paper airplane designs, including the world record paper airplane design for longest throw, as well as his super popular how-to books The New World Champio...
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