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 ...

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 ...

Deploying flaps during a short-field takeoff roll is incorrect and potentially dangerous; the aircraft's Pilot's Operating Handbook (POH)/Aircraft Flying Manual (AFM) specifies appropriate flap ...

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 ...

Wing flaps are movable surfaces located on the trailing edge of the wings and are typically deployed during specific phases of takeoff and landing. The majority of planes have these, whether jets or ...

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 ...

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has donated an aircraft flap assembly worth more than $774,000 to the University of Connecticut’s School of Engineering for research labs and training ...

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 ...

BAE Systems has made a bit of aviation history by maneuvering the first aircraft in flight using supersonically blown air instead of ailerons or other control surfaces. Taking to the skies over ...