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How a Plane Wing Really Works
The power of flight is an amazing thing to get your head around, but apparently you’ve been taught wrong. We know a wing blazes through the air with a shape that causes lower pressure on top of it and...
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Macca Pulls Streaming Support… Before Streamed iTunes Concert
The living legend that is Sir Paul McCartney has removed his catalogue of solo work from streaming services in the US, coincidentally just before performing an exclusive set that'll be streamed through...
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Man Flies Like a Bird Flapping His Own Wings
I'm really amazed by this video, because I always dreamed about doing this: watch Dutch mechanical engineer Jarno Smeets take off by flapping wings of his own invention — just like a real bird! It's...
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This “That’s What She Said” Receipt Is Funnier Than Any Stupid April Fools
Gizmodo reader Cameron Halter said he was eating at Taco Mac in Atlanta, Georgia, when they noticed this note in their receipt. “I think it speaks for itself,” he says in his email. Truth. [Thanks...
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Airbus Could Ground All Its A380s For Weeks for Wing Repairs
Airbus’s fleet of A380s has been beleaguered by problems with cracks in their wings since January. Now, the company has announced that they could all be grounded for up to eight weeks in order to...
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First Ever Robo-Sparrow Shunned and Bullied by the Flesh and Blood Variety
A dead sparrow brought back to life by robotics scientists has been having a terrible time getting beaten up by its living relatives. They attack it. They fear it. But that was all part of the...
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Watching Bats Fly In Slow Motion Reveals Biological Badassery
We all know about echolocation, but way more is happening when a bat takes flight, and some bats don’t echolocate at all. So how do they have so much precision in their flying and what’s different...
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