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

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 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 ...

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 ...

Investigators of last year's fatal Spanair Boeing MD-82 crash have disclosed that the pilots' failure to carry out proper flap and slat position checks contributed to the loss of the aircraft on ...

Secondary flight controls (including trim tabs, flaps, slats, and spoilers) augment primary controls, improve performance (especially at low speeds), or alter wing aerodynamics. Specific secondary ...

The Boeing 727's ability to operate from smaller airports stemmed from its advanced wing design, incorporating high-lift devices like slotted Fowler flaps and leading-edge slats/Krueger flaps. These ...

[Mike Patey] had made a name for himself by building high-performance experimental aircraft. In his latest project, he added a transforming wing that can extend its chord by up to 16 inches for low ...