In the distance, the yellow crop dusting plane looks small. But it rapidly grows bigger as it flies toward you, low to the ground, like a scene from the Alfred Hitchcock classic, “North by Northwest.” ...
John Bird, Ph.D., and Afroza Shirin, Ph.D., stand with a model aircraft used in their research on soaring. With a new grant from DARPA, the two are using insights from bird flight to develop uncrewed ...