A team of researchers from Princeton University is exploring how feather-like flaps on aircraft wings could improve stability ...

Research suggests that free-moving panels on aircraft wings can improve stability, reduce turbulence, and add fuel efficiency ...

To explore this, Sedky’s team attached flexible plastic strips resembling bird feathers onto aircraft wing models in wind ...

But a bird wing is vastly more sophisticated than anything composed of sheet metal and rivets. From a central feather shaft extends a series of slender barbs, each sprouting smaller barbules ...

Zhang, 20, is a native of Zhangmawan and an advertising major at Xiangtan University in central China's Hunan Province. She has been doing market research on feather dusters and promoting the products ...

Overall, it is black with brownish tones, especially on the feather edges ... secondaries contrast with the black primaries and wing coverts, giving a two-toned look to the wing.