Should airplanes look like birds?

Airplanes do not look much like birds - unless you were to imagine a really weird bird or a very strange plane - but should they? This question is exactly what a pair of engineers in California and South Africa inadvertently answered recently when they set about re-thinking the ubiquitous tube-and-wings aircraft architecture from scratch in order to make airplanes more fuel efficient...

Read the whole article on

More from