However, employing boundary-layer ingestion means the airflow into the engine is not uniform.

ECONOMIST: The aircraft of the future

The rear of the fuselage is also sculpted to sweep air into the engines using a process known as boundary-layer ingestion.

ECONOMIST: The aircraft of the future

The question is one of the most hotly contested in palaeontology and revolves around an apparent gap in the fossil record immediately prior to the K-T boundary - the distinct layer of geological sediments separating the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods, and associated with a massive asteroid impact and global extinction event.

BBC: Closing the 'three metre gap'

Before the experiment in the hanger could begin, researchers calculated the pressures the house would experience in a small-scale study conducted at the University's Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory -- which has over 40 years of expertise testing high-rise buildings and bridges.

CNN: Engineering a hurricane-proof roof

While a single wind-turbine does not affect the global atmosphere, the installation of a large number of such devices will interfere with the atmospheric circulation and diminish the extraction efficiency on the large scale, since any extraction of momentum will act in competition with natural wind-power energy dissipation by turbulence in the boundary layer.

FORBES: Researchers Warn Of Climatic Consequences To Harvesting Wind Energy On Mass Scale