Question: If flaps don’t increase lift, then why is a small amount of flaps used in soft-field takeoffs for some aircraft? Answer: Who said flaps don’t increase lift? Flaps do increase lift. Reference ...

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 ...

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.

For an aircraft designed with powerful high-lift devices for hopping in and out of short, unimproved runways, the flap system on the Pilatus PC-24 looks surprisingly small and unobtrusive. But to ...

I’m now pretty sure that one of the best techniques to be used to analyse the aviation crashes is to think to the “deadly precedents”. On Aug 23 I provided in this article Spanair 5022: a video ...

Textron Aviation has selected Ametek Aerospace & Defense to provide the flap system for its new clean-sheet Cessna Denali single-engine turboprop now under development. The flap system consists of ...

China's Xian Aircraft has delivered its first set of composite inboard wing flaps for the Boeing 747-8 programme. XAC, a subsidiary of AVIC, will become the sole supplier of the aircraft's inboard ...

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 ...

Aviation expert and experienced pilot Captain Steve has suggested that the crash of Air India flight AI171 was likely linked to many reasons rather than a direct engine failure, based on his review of ...

A British unmanned plane that uses jets of air to fly instead of conventional ‘flaps’ has made aviation history. The experimental unmanned air vehicle (UAV), called DEMON, uses blown jets of air to ...

Portland, Ore. — European aerospace researchers have shown the first prototype of a planned “flapless” unmanned air vehicle. Similar to a remote-controlled U.S. Predator drone, the prototype UAV is an ...