Climate change is creating stronger turbulence. Aircraft designers hope innovative new techniques will reduce its effects.

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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 ...

Multiple aviation analysts believe the aircraft's wing flaps were not correctly deployed at the time of takeoff. The flaps, which are essential for creating lift at low speeds, appeared to remain ...

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 ...

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.

The incident comes just weeks after an Air India flight bound for London Gatwick struck a medical college hostel in Ahmedabad ...