The Beech 1900D provides safe flight for thousands of business people around the world. Lexington, MA-Willard Crowe knows that safety drives many decisions in the aerospace business. He is a senior ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...