Modern airplanes are equipped with several ways of slowing down, notably speed brakes and spoilers. Is there a difference ...

The flaps were preventing sudden drops in lift ... runway or if it encountered sudden gusts of wind. Maintaining control when an airplane’s wing is at a high angle to the incoming air is ...

They also used a wing model built with standard, single-row flaps to serve as a control. “The wind tunnel experiments give us really precise measurements for how air interacts with the wing and ...

The team attached the covert-inspired flaps to a 3D-printed model airplane wing and mounted it in the wind tunnel, a 30-foot-tall metal contraption that simulates and measures air flow. "The wind ...

They could boost the performance of aircraft, too. Lining aircraft wings with rows of lightweight flaps that mimic covert feathers can increase lift, reduce drag and prevent stall, researchers ...

The ground crew at Chino Airport signaled a warning to the two men in a World War II-era airplane about a wing flaps problem shortly before the Lockheed 12A Electra Junior took off and almost ...

Ahmed K. Othman, Girguis Sedky, Hannah Wiswell and Aimy Wissa (left to right) equipped the wings of an RC plane with covert-inspired flaps, and flew it at Princeton's Forrestal Campus to prove ...