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

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

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 ...

Flaps, or more properly 'trailing edge high lift devices,' have two functions—they increase drag and enable the wing to sustain lift at a lower speed. [FLYING Magazine] Flaps, or more properly ...

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

So despite having been extinct for 66 million years, the pterosaurs have huge potential as the inspiration for aircraft design. Sometimes looking back can be the best way to look forward.

For aircraft designers, this meant developing a new wing design optimized for high ... on the bottom with a downward curve at the trailing edge," according to Defense Department records.

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 ...

A wing box, depending on the size and type of the aircraft, might have one or multiple spars. In commercial aircraft, there are typically two spars, one located at the leading edge and the other ...

A mysterious flying-wing aircraft appeared in satellite images ... sport two small canted vertical stabilizers towards the trailing edge. A larger satellite photo of the Chinese radar test facility.