Unfortunately, a vertical tail adds weight and generates drag, which reduces fuel efficiency in passenger airliners. It also increases the radar signature, which is something you want to keep as ...

A pigeon-inspired robot has solved the mystery of how birds fly without the vertical tail fins that human-designed aircraft rely on. Its makers say the prototype could eventually lead to passenger ...

According to the team led by Eric Chang from Stanford University, the findings shed light on how birds, as opposed to ...

The V-tail design has been around since 1930 ... the "gold-canopied" F-22 Raptor seem to fit the bill with two oblique vertical stabilizers that resemble a "widened V". However, these planes ...

Get a taste of the upcoming action from Abu Dhabi as the piots battle it out for the first win.

Photos obtained by CNN and posted to social media show the vertical tail of the regional flight separated from the rest of the airplane flanked by airport rescue vehicles. “That whole tail of ...

Welcome to Kazan, one of the oldest cities in Russia, capital of the republic of Tatarstan. For the first time the Red Bull Air Race World Championship has landed in he biggest country in the world.