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, ...

So despite having been extinct for 66 million years, the pterosaurs have huge potential as the inspiration for aircraft ...

Increasing camber, flaps propel an airliner to lift off at lower speeds, trading a little drag for a lot of lift. The ...

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

“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).

Replacement extrusions for the trailing edge webs are currently ... followed by crew training and aircraft familiarisation. The Centre's GoFundMe Wings Fund has so far raised £79,795 of the ...

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

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 goal was to build an aircraft that could deliver on the ... airflow forming a thick jet sheet coming off of the trailing edge of the wing, making the wing act virtually larger than it ...

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 ...