Excessive grinding” during maintenance led to a metal pin to crack and eventually break causing the left landing gear to ...

A hickory nut, opened with such precision it could belong in the Museum of Modern Art, lay at the base of a towering, dead ...

Their remarkably flat, broad tail serves dual purposes: as a rudder for steering during glides and as a stabilizer upon landing. Northern Flying Squirrels have evolved several adaptations for their ...

Flying squirrels and snakes glide between trees ... They can glide for up to 200 meters before landing back in the water. Flying fish use their tail fins to gain the speed needed for takeoff ...

In particular, we want to investigate the gliding behavior of the flying squirrel drone and develop a type of landing frame and control strategies that allow the drone to slow down quickly and ...

It’s an evolutionary design that allows them to steer through complex terrain and, crucially, to decelerate rapidly just before landing. These features make flying squirrels extremely agile ...

"The flying squirrel drone is inspired by the movements of flying squirrels, particularly their ability to rapidly decelerate by spreading their wings just before landing on trees. We initiated this ...

Until recently, flying squirrels were assumed to be passive ... and to lessen impacts upon landing. During passive gliding, travel occurs along a declining linear path. This is what paper ...

“We were inspired by flying squirrels’ ability to decelerate quickly before landing by spreading their limbs,” said researchers Dohyeon Lee, Jun-Gill Kang, and Soohee Han. “We believed similar ...

"The flying squirrel drone is inspired by the movements of flying squirrels, particularly their ability to rapidly decelerate by spreading their wings just before landing on trees," Dohyeon Lee, ...

An experimental drone addresses that problem in a bio-inspired fashion, by extending flying-squirrel-like membranous ... or use the wings to glide in for a landing. The drone slams on the brakes ...