Last year at the 37th annual Reno Air Races, over 180,000 spectators watched as more than 30 aircraft battled for the gold in the Unlimited aircraft division. The planes, mostly P-51 Mustangs and ...

Winglets reduce wingtip vortices, the twin tornados formed by the difference between the pressure on the upper surface of an airplane's wing and that on the lower surface. High pressure on the lower ...