A flying robot uses its bird-like tail to maintain stability in flight – a technique that could enable more aerodynamic ...

Most airplanes in the world have vertical tails or rudders to prevent Dutch roll instabilities, a combination of yawing and ...

This flexibility allows birds to maintain stability and control during flight, even in challenging conditions. Pigeons, for example, show consistent reflexes when rolled, pitched, or yawed.

US biologists used homing pigeons to test the potential impacts of oil spills on birds' flight. "Lightly oiled" pigeons, they found, veered off course and took longer to return and longer to ...

Most of the Kaua‘i Racing Pigeon Club’s six members had birds when they were young, said club Secretary-Treasurer Stephen Ruiz. That’s the way it was with Ruiz. Originally from Kaua‘i ...