This is the hilarious moment a ski lift operator pranked a skier as he waited to be pulled up a mountain in France. Footage filmed by ski lift operator Jean-Patrick DuChemin, 37, on March 3 shows the ...

Without the aerodynamic forces of lift and drag, aircraft would be unable to fly, wind turbines would not spin, and countless other machines that we depend on every day would not work. What, exactly, ...

Future aerial design may owe a nod of thanks to five parrotlets flapping around in an instrumented flight chamber at Stanford University. They revealed that counter to conventional understanding of ...

Researchers at Stanford University have discovered counterintuitive ways that birds use drag and lift when they fly. The findings may influence future research into how to “repurpose” drag and lift in ...