Cora is a parrotlet. Parrotlets use a flying technique... called intermittent flight, which is common in small birds and consists of pauses during which the wings are flexed (bound) or extended (glide). Flap-bounding appears to be an energy-saving style when flying relatively fast, with the production of lift by the body and tail critical to this saving. Flap-gliding is thought to be less costly than continuous flapping during flight at most speeds. So not only is she an excellent flyer, she is an efficient one too! #wings #flying #fly #flight #coraline #parrotlet #jump #fall #dive #parrot #bird #parrotlover #parrotsofig #parrotsofinstagram #bird #birdsoftiktok #birdtok #birdtraining #birdtricks #birdlover #education #rescueshow more

Birds take advantage of an aerodynamic phenomenon known as... "ground effect," where flying close to a surface reduces drag by altering airflow patterns around their wings. This allows for more efficient flight with less resistance 📹 Kirill Pokidovshow more

Fun Fact: Baby bats cling to their mothers during... flight until they're able to fly on their own. Considering they can weigh up to 42% of their mother's total body mass, their flight speed is slowed and must flap their wings more to carry the extra weight.show more

Like it or not this guy is the #1... Web-3 KOL in the world -And he wants to meet me So I’ll be flying into Singapore next flight 🚀 This is an opportunity I’m not gonna miss 🙏show more

Rather shy and easily overlooked, the tottavilla is a... virtuoso of song, which she performs during her spiraling flight. 🎵 An ambassador of the WWFitalia Ripabianca 'Oasis', she is protected by #NatureGuardian along with other local species. #Tech4Natureshow more

Starship Flight 14 is going to be a revenue... generating flight. We're moving into production cadence and flying production v3 Starlink satellites to orbit on our next flight. —SpaceX CFO, Bret Johnsenshow more

😓 Air India 🇮🇳 Flight AI171 with fully loaded... Boeing 787-7 Dreamliner fatal accident: I‘m an airline pilot with >15‘000h of experience and a physics institute: My brief PRELIMINARY analysis of the visible facts from the video of the takeoff: * The flaps are only slightly extended, presumably to position 1 instead of 5. * The landing gear is still extended, which should have been retracted at this altitude and causes additional drag. * The aircraft is at a high angle of attack, which confirms the insufficient flap setting. * From the video and witness accounts, only low engine noise is audible. * Neither smoke nor fire is visible. * An engine failure is less likely. The most probable cause is presumably a human factor, an incorrectly chosen, insufficient flap setting for takeoff, and consequently an inadequately selected thrust. In this context, the correlated speeds were too low because they were calculated for a larger flap setting or a lighter aircraft. As a result, the aircraft took off with insufficient speed and intentionally but falsely derated thrust, was therefore on the unstable side, and rapidly lost more speed and altitude due to the additional failure to retract the landing gear in a timely manner, leading to a subsequent stall at low altitude and crash. For the experts: the aircraft got onto the wrong side of the speed vs drag curve and maneuvered itself into a corner from where there is no escape. Another possible cause could also have been an incorrect input of a wrong takeoff weight into the Flight Management System, resulting in too low thrust and too low speeds. The pilots got startled after takeoff, couldn’t wrap their head around what went wrong and incorrectly prioritized making an emergency call instead of flying the aircraft first, manually increasing thrust immediately to maximum, and retracting the landing gear. In summary of this very early and preliminary assessment (your confidence level should be as low as mine): The most probable cause is human error 😓 - as most of the time these days. Not because the pilots got worse (although that effect can be observed as well with prioritization of diversity over competence) - but because technology got so much better.show more

An IAF Su-30 performing low level terrain masking (canyon... flying) during a training flight, flying very close to the Saptashrungi Temple, Nashik. 🇮🇳show more

The Milky Way galaxy is not only flying at... 600 km/s, but also “flapping its wings” like a butterflyshow more

The Milky Way is not only flying at 600... km/s, but also “flapping its wings” like a butterfly🦋show more

"Cylindrical UFO Captured During Commercial Flight 🛸" A passenger... aboard a commercial flight captured footage of what appears to be a cylindrical UFO flying alongside the plane. Is this evidence of extraterrestrial technology, or could there be another explanation? True or false? Share your thoughts below! #UFO #OVNI #UAP #AlienTechnology #CylindricalUFO #UFOsighting #AviationMystery #Unexplained #SkyPhenomenonshow more

🚨: The Milky Way galaxy is not only flying... at 600 km/s, but also “flapping its wings” like a butterfly.🦋show more

The U.S. Navy has released the first flight-test footage... of its Blackbeard hypersonic strike missile mounted under the wings of F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. Blackbeard is being developed by Castelion under the Navy's Multi-mission Affordable Capacity Effector (MACE) program, which calls for a missile capable of flying faster than Mach 5 while carrying a payload of roughly 34 kg. The service is aiming to field the weapon in at least limited numbers by 2028, giving carrier air wings a new fast, long-range standoff option, especially for striking enemy ships. Integration with the F-35 is also planned, with the jet able to carry up to four Blackbeard missiles internally. The missile is also meant to be cheap and fast to produce, targeted around $300,000 per unit at a production rate of 500 missiles a year.show more

Kakapo: The world's heaviest and longest-living parrot! The kakapo... is an unusual and critically endangered species of bird that has lost its ability to fly. These unique birds currently only live in conservation areas in New Zealand. The most remarkable feature of the kakapo is its ability to live up to 90 years, making it the world's longest-living bird!show more

Best part about being a software developer is you... can bring ideas into reality. As a frequent flyer and an aviation geek, I missed the in-flight entertainment on indigo flights. So I created an app that fetches my trip data, downloads an offline map of the estimated flight path before my flight and simulates an IFE during the flight Right now it shows altitude, speed, heading and flight location on the map.show more

Thousands of Airbus A320 airliners around the world might... require a software update, potentially causing flight delays or cancellations during the busy Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Airbus identified an apparent issue relating to "intense solar radiation," which "may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls" and recommended an emergency software update to the A320 family of aircraft – a common passenger plane for U.S. carriers. This emergency update stems from an incident Oct. 30 when a JetBlue flight traveling from Cancun, Mexico, to Newark, New Jersey, experienced an issue with its flight controls. The plane dropped about 100 feet in seven seconds, according to preliminary flight data from Flightradar24, and was diverted to Tampa, Florida.show more

❗️It is claimed to be footage of the first... flight of a 🇨🇳Chinese 6th generation fighter, designed according to the flying wing design. It is accompanied by a 5th generation J-20 fighter jet.show more

A flexible composite airfoil is an advanced wing design... that can physically change its shape depending on the aircraft's angle of attack-the angle between the wing and the oncoming air. Unlike traditional rigid wings, these airfoils are built using lightweight composite materials that can bend and adapt in real time. As the angle of attack increases, the wing subtly reshapes itself to maintain smoother airflow, improve lift, and reduce drag. This concept is inspired by nature-similar to how birds adjust their wings during flight for maximum efficiency and control.show more