Browsing: Fly

It’s a well known fact that snakes can “fly”, gliding even more than 100 meters sometimes from branch to branch, but exactly how they are able to achieve such a remarkable feat has dazzled researchers for quite a while. A new study using an unprecedented filming, 3D modeling, real and fake snakes showed how snakes […]

QinetiQ claims they have broken this record, by using a really light plane built of carbon fiber, powered by solar panels, nicknamed “Zephyr”. The aircraft stayed in the air for 83 hours and 37 minutes, which is more than twice the previous record. Zephyr also broke the previous record by approximately 54 hours, but that […]