Flaps are retractable surfaces on the trailing edge of wings. An aircraft, during the take-off and landing phases when its ...

Captain Steve, an aviation expert, suggests that a critical cockpit error may have triggered the tragic Air India crash, ...

Boxer is a chonky boi, eeerm, a large aircraft.” With that acid remark, established aviation correspondent Bill Sweetman, ...

Almost six months have passed since the next generation aircraft stunned the world, with more sightings adding to clues and ...

Pterosaurs were an amazing group of flying reptiles that occupied the skies around the same time that dinosaurs roamed on ...

As a team of investigators from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) arrives in India, Greg Feith — a former ...

Safety experts said investigators would be looking at why and how the plane started descending during its take off.

“We have been unable to achieve such smooth lines in the aircraft that ... first flew in 1935, had a wing with a slightly swept leading edge (and a straight trailing edge).

However, the broken trailing edge degrades the structural efficiency and increases the wing’s weight. Other details are now clearer, such as the design being a twin engine aircraft with what ...

The aircraft had propeller locks that locked ... Small fins were added above and below at the trailing edge with wing fences extending those four fins forward. The fins brought stability that ...