No-flap landings require significantly faster approach and touchdown speeds due to reduced lift and drag, resulting in a higher nose pitch attitude that can create optical illusions and a greater ...

The last thing an air passenger sitting next to an emergency exit wants to hear from a flight attendant just before landing is, "You may need to open this but do not open it if the wing is on fire." ...

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 ...

Constantly increasing air travel has brought commercial airlines constantly increasing headaches. And control of the swift traffic aloft is only a part of the problem. With their high speeds and long ...

Why can the C-17 land on short runways?

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 ...

The touch-and-go landing is about as ubiquitous as anything involved in flying a small fixed-wing aircraft. Pick just about any community airport on a soft summer evening and youll probably find ...

For the last month and a half, Boeing has been investigating a serious buffet in the inboard flaps of the 747-8F, Flightglobal affiliate FlightBlogger reports. Turbulent air coming off of the outboard ...

A Jet2 flight was forced to execute a “full speed” emergency landing at Manchester Airport after the wing flaps - which serve to slow the plane down - broke before landing. The flight from Crete was ...

German investigators probing the loss of a Boeing 747-400ER freighter’s flap on landing at Frankfurt Main have indicated that previous incidents on the type have been the result of corrosion and ...