The Beech 1900D provides safe flight for thousands of business people around the world. Lexington, MA-Willard Crowe knows that safety drives many decisions in the aerospace business. He is a senior ...

Flexible shafts assist aircraft’s flap actuator system. Pilatus, the aircraft manufacturer located in Stans, Switzerland, produces a uniquely versatile, multipurpose aircraft, the PC-12. As a business ...

ANN ARBOR (WWJ) --An Ann Arbor company is giving the aviation industry its long-sought, elusive goal of practical seamless control surface technologies. A variable geometry airfoil, called FlexFoil, ...

One of the most influential cockpit levers on a jet’s take-off is the flap handle. Hinged panels at the wing’s trailing and leading edges transform a sleek airfoil into a low-speed lift sail.

Humanity spent centuries trying to fly like birds with flapping wings before finally developing the technologies needed to soar with balloons and then taking to the air with gas-powered, fixed-wing ...

NASA’s green aviation project is one step closer to developing technology that could make future airliners quieter and more fuel-efficient with the successful flight test of a wing surface that can ...

Instead of using large fans or arrays of propellers to provide lift and thrust, the Volerian uses a succession of wing-like flaps set within their own ducts. The flaps oscillate back and forth, driven ...

Over a century ago, the aviators who followed the Wright Brothers into the air suddenly turned away from building rickety wood-and-wire flying machines that physically warped the shape of their canvas ...

Pilatus, the aircraft manufacturer located in Stans, Switzerland, produces a uniquely versatile, multipurpose aircraft, the PC-12. As a business aircraft, it offers multiple configurations ranging ...