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

AHMEDABAD, India — The Air India plane crash this week was one of India’s worst aviation disasters, killing 241 people on ...

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

Investigators are combing the wreckage of Air India flight AI171 to determine what caused the Boeing Co. Dreamliner to crash ...

The Air India 787 went down in the northwestern city of Ahmedabad with more than 240 people aboard shortly after takeoff, authorities said.

“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 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 ...

China’s aircraft industry celebrated Mao Zedong’s birthday ... such as inlaid panels in the upper surface of the wing.) The hinge lines of trailing-edge surfaces appear to be covered by flexible skins ...

Due to the aircraft's tail-down angle and the pitching of the carrier's flight deck, the plane's trailing edge wing flaps hit the deck, breaking their hinges upon landing. Brown, however ...

Using a twin-engined aircraft as ... outer wing box, and leading and trailing edges. In fact, the project is evaluating four different designs for the leading edge alone, each featuring different ...