Flight Testing Uncovers the Leading-Edge Stall In 1982, the Learjet flight-test team was tasked with trying to make improvements to the stall characteristics of its earlier aircraft.

Stall behavior plays a critical role in flight testing. Learn how design tweaks like stall strips and slots improve safety during early flights. The post Build, Test, Refine and Fix-Part 4: Stall ...

In this month’s How It Works, we look at the leading-edge wing cuff, a relatively simple concept designed to improve stall-spin resistance and take a bite out of GA accident numbers.

Leading-Edge Tubercles: Sinusoidal protuberances along the front edge of an airfoil that generate beneficial vortices, delaying flow separation and enhancing lift.

Finspiration: The bumps on the leading edge of the humpback whale’s flipper give it a hydrodynamic advantage. Researchers are discovering that similar bumps could make wind turbines, fan blades ...

Birds have long been our inspiration for flight, and researchers at Princeton University have found a new trick in their arsenal: covert feathers. These small feathers on top of birds’ wings … ...

Investors digested the latest Federal Reserve interest rate decision amid ongoing Israel-Iran hostilities that could draw in ...

Theoretical 4,7,8,16 and experimental 7,13,14,15 analyses show that the lift to drag ratio is higher under attached flow conditions than when flow is separated to form a leading-edge vortex.

Love to know how big that 1,2,10,10+ years blade is, as it seems from my reading to be that sort of age its can’t be even close to the giant monsters getting put up everywhere today.

PLAINVIEW, N.Y., April 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Veeco Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: VECO) announced today two leading-edge logic customers have selected Veeco’s Laser Spike Annealing Platform as ...

Gaspar J. "Buddy" Stall, a familiar face and voice of New Orleans history and lore, died Thursday at his home. He was 81. Buddy Stall Mr. Stall, a colorful personality, chronicled New Orleans life ...

In Part 2, we’ll discuss leading-edge stall. Patrick Veillette, Ph.D. Upon his retirement as a non-routine flight operations captain from a fractional operator in 2015, ...