NASA Dryden's G-III Aerodynamic Research Test Bed retracts its landing gear after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base on a baseline data-collection flight prior to undergoing modifications for the ...

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

In this explanation video you'll learn how an aircraft is controlled with the help of great graphics, you'll understand the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Delta Air Lines Airbus A330 with 177 passengers declared an emergency after a flap alert and landed safely back in Paris ...

The ground crew at Chino Airport signaled a warning to the two men in a World War II-era airplane about a wing flaps problem shortly before the Lockheed 12A Electra Junior took off and almost ...

Recent solar storms revealed a vulnerability in the computers that Airbus A320 family use to control the aircraft's altitude.