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 ...

UC Assistant Professor Sameh Elsa and his research partners are working on a novel project – designing drones inspired by albatrosses. Known as one of the largest birds on earth, they have 11-foot ...

From falcons that dive at record-breaking speeds to swifts and geese that dominate level flight, here are the fastest flying ...

In June 2024, BuffettNews.com reported that Jimmy Buffett's iconic Grumman HU-16 Albatross, famously known as the Hemisphere ...