In 2014 and 2015, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, a strange-looking twin-boom aircraft ...

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 ...

Imagine looking out the window of an airborne airplane and seeing the wing rippling and twisting. You'll probably have a mini ...

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 ...

When a high-speed aircraft tilts sharply during flight, the surrounding air no longer flows ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A British unmanned plane that uses jets of air to fly instead of conventional ‘flaps’ has made aviation history. The experimental unmanned air vehicle (UAV), called DEMON, uses blown jets of air to ...

A SpiceJet flight carrying 153 passengers from New Delhi suffered a technical snag as its flaps did not deploy while landing at the airport here but the pilots made the touchdown safely. The landing ...