Have you noticed that some planes have engines on the wings while others have them on the tail? In fact, there are purposeful ...

Like its non-flying close relatives, Microraptor had elongated bones lining the top and underside of its tail, forming a stiff counterbalance that allowed the animal to keep its center of gravity ...

I leveled the YB-49 at 20,000 feet, pulled back on the throttles, and waited for it to stop flying. Because most of the shudder you get in a stall comes from the tail, not the wing, I knew I ...

The idea was not unprecedented; the German aerospace engineer Hugo Junkers had patented a flying-wing design in 1910. The concept is that an airplane’s fuselage and tail, while they provide ...

Their wings were made of a dynamic membrane ... 50 million years ago. Most flying vertebrates evolved shorter bony tails as they took to the skies. Early pterosaurs differed from other flying ...

Their streamlined torpedo shape helps them gather enough underwater speed to break the surface, and their large, wing ... flying fish. Beyond their useful pectoral fins, all have unevenly forked ...