A: Flaps (and slats) increase the lift that the wing can produce at a lower speed. To keep the takeoff and landing speeds as low as possible, the design engineers include highly efficient flaps (and ...

UTC Aerospace Systems is developing new "fully-distributed" electric flap and slat control systems for next-generation commercial aircraft such as Boeing's proposed New Mid-market Airplane (NMA). The ...

A test data management system by Werum Software & Systems served as a central hub for gathering information from control computers about high-lift slats and flaps on the Airbus A380 during recent ...

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 ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring airlines take steps to a prevent a potentially dangerous slat issue that could affect Boeing 787s operating in winter weather. The US Federal Aviation ...

Much is made of the ability of crossover narrowbody jets to bring right-sizing to many airlines’ routes. The trip costs are clearly advantageous when a route does not have the capacity to fill enough ...

Speculations about the possible causes of the Spanair 5022 crash on Aug. 20 continue. According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, a security camera at Madrid-Barajas airport recorded the MD82 take off ...

[Mike Patey] had made a name for himself by building high-performance experimental aircraft. In his latest project, he added a transforming wing that can extend its chord by up to 16 inches for low ...