Look Ma, no flaps! Pieces of the wing and tail that move back and forth to help control aircraft, flaps have been used to control flight since the Wright brothers -- until now. Engineers have ...

An unmanned aerial vehicle named DEMON made history last month when it demonstrated “flapless flight” at an airfield in Cumbria, England. The demonstrator aircraft’s ailerons/elevators were locked off ...

A British designed unmanned air vehicle (UAV) which showcases a wide range of new technologies has successfully demonstrated 'flapless flight' in the UK. The UAV, called DEMON, made the historic ...

Portland, Ore. — European aerospace researchers have shown the first prototype of a planned “flapless” unmanned air vehicle. Similar to a remote-controlled U.S. Predator drone, the prototype UAV is an ...

Drones could be about to become even more deadly, thanks to a new technology which promises to make them lighter, faster and harder to detect. Complex mechanical 'flaps' have been dropped in favour of ...

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed to fly without conventional control surfaces has made its maiden flight over Cumbria. The DEMON UAV made the flight from an airfield at Walney Island on ...

Efforts toward flapless flight have taken off with BAE Systems and Manchester University successfully completing initial flight trials of MAGMA, a jet powered UAV aiming to manoeuvre with an ...

New test plane flies without control surfaces: With fewer moving parts, there's less to break. That's the idea behind a new flapless aircraft. New e-paper may send e-ink running for its e-mommy: ...

Researchers in the UK have flown the first aircraft that can maneuver without conventional control surfaces or flaps. In place of elevators and ailerons, the aircraft uses jets of air along the back ...

Several universities in the UK have teamed up with BAE Systems to build a remote-controlled plane which has no wing flaps and no pilot, according to the University of Leicester. Two prototypes of such ...