The fluttery erratic flight of a butterfly may have emerged as an evolutionary response to evade birds and other predators. A morphological and kinematic study of butterfly flight dynamics reveals ...

Perhaps the simplest description is "playably realistic". Underlying the flight model is basic Newtonian physics: engines apply a force to the ship's mass, which accelerates in response.

Presents experimental flight data for validation and verification of modelled dynamics, thus illustrating the deficiencies and difficulties associated with modelling flapping-wing flight Derives a new ...

Using the RotorLib Flight Dynamics Model, the goal of the DLC is to add appropriate depth and breadth to helicopter gameplay. It’s due to release in the second half of 2014, and is available ...

“Main wing transition is a huge step forward on our path to launch and it validates our flight dynamics model,” said Matthias Meiner, company founder and Phoenix chief engineer in a news release.

At first, he built a foam model of the rover, but it proved to be unstable in the wake of the quadcopter’s propellers, so he used a rock instead.

As per the spokesperson, the subscale aircraft initially flown at Crow’s Landing in California “has similar flight dynamics to previous BWB subscale aircraft, namely X-48.” ...