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 ...

Wing flaps are movable surfaces located on the trailing edge of the wings and are typically deployed during specific phases ...

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 ...

Look Ma, no flaps! Pieces of the wing and tail that move back and forth to help control aircraft, flaps have been used to control flight since the Wright brothers -- until now. Engineers have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Airbus created the AlbatrossONE, a small-scale remote-controlled aircraft with wingtips that can flap like a bird during turbulence to better handle the strong gusts of winds. These hinged, flapping ...

Man has long tried to imitate birds in building all types of aircraft, to varying degrees of success. A new concept aircraft from Airbus, now in its second stage of testing, is taking biomimicry to a ...