The flap significantly contributes to the F-35’s stealth profile, a key feature of its design. By reducing the aircraft’s radar cross-section, the flap helps the F-35 evade detection by enemy ...

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The aircraft — which, to be clear, is still in small-scale prototype form — uses a new VTOL technique that redirects the flow of air from its engines using flaps rather than turning them (like ...

Eldec claims development of the first flap skew detection system for a regional jet using non-contacting proximity sensing technology. The system is used to monitor the flap actuation system and ...

An Air India flight bound for London was forced to abort take-off due to a suspected technical issue. Flight AI2017, which ...

Investigators probing the Aug. 20 Spanair MD-82 crash concluded that the aircraft's flaps were not extended as it attempted to take off and that no warning was sounded in the cockpit.

All aircraft today use control surfaces–flaps–to turn, dive and climb. By using using streams of air to control direction in its UAV, the Flaviir effort intends to take computer control one step ...