The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is a swift and mighty hunter, capable of reaching speeds as high as 6.7 m/s when breaching, although it prefers to swim at slower speeds for migration ...

All Nippon Airways (ANA) is broadening its riblet-film studies to a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 turboprop as the airline works to eke-out fuel savings under a sustainability initiative. Commonly ...

EU Commission invests €5.6 million in new laser system that creates multifunctional film surfaces inspired by smooth shark skin to reduce drag and ice formation on airplanes or ships – significantly ...

Delta Air Lines plans to test "shark skin" riblets on its fleet of Boeing 767 aircraft. This initiative is part of the airline's effort to make its older planes more fuel-efficient and environmentally ...

All Nippon Airways has applied the low-drag AeroShark surface film on a single Boeing 777 freighter, becoming the second Asian operator to use the film on its aircraft. The first 777F with the ...

New findings on how sharks achieve drag reduction could inspire the design of riblets for more efficient aircraft and boats. In their investigation of great white shark denticles, researchers found ...

More than 9,000 domestic U.S. flights on Saturday were canceled or delayed as of early-evening, with many in the New York area. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s ...

Lufthansa Technik is to coat four Boeing 777-200ERs from sister carrier Austrian Airlines with its low-drag AeroShark surface film. Austrian is the latest Lufthansa Group airline to benefit from the ...

Side view of a great white shark with highlighted skin sampling locations, showing detailed denticles captured by a microfocus X-ray CT scanner. New findings on how sharks achieve drag reduction could ...