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: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The aeroacoustic analysis of high-lift airfoil systems is a critical field of research aimed at understanding and mitigating the noise generated by aircraft during takeoff and landing. High-lift ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This article, written by Stephen Pope, was previously published in 2014. Work crews finished hauling away the largest of the rocks and muddy stumps only a few days ago, turning what had ...

A Times investigation shows that the flight’s takeoff was largely routine, and that disaster struck after the plane was airborne. By Mika Gröndahl, Zach Levitt and Karthik Patanjali It could take ...