Wing fences are small metal vanes that once graced the wings of early jets. Here's why they have since disappeared from ...

Tomorrow, investigators probing the loss of the space shuttle Columbia will run long-awaited tests to determine whether the impact of a piece of foam insulation could have opened the fatal hole in ...

I wasn’t looking for nice. I was a 14-year-old, eagerly flipping through a vintage Playboy magazine I found in a thrift store in upstate New York while my ...

Rather than slats, the new-concept wing has a leading edge that changes shape internally, “drooping” to a higher-lift airfoil configuration without the drag and noise of leading edge slats.

Slats are moveable panels on the front or leading edge of the wing and are used during takeoffs and landings. Chicago-based United did not say what caused the damage which left pieces of the slat ...

These leading edge slats provide the lift necessary at low speeds, with the gap between the wing and the slats directing air from the underside of the wing to the top. Unfortunately, this gap also ...

Loss of thermal protection panels may have led to break-up, but cause is still unknown Aerodynamic analysis is leading investigators to suspect that loss or failure of thermal-protection panels on ...

The Leading Edge Flight Academy has completed a new helicopter hangar facility at the Bend Municipal Airport, making use of a new heliport with more than 20 spots.

Credit: Clinton Tanner, “The Effect of Wing Leading-Edge Contamination on the Stall Characteristics of Aircraft. ” ... In Part 2, we’ll discuss leading-edge stall.

In addition to generating lift by leading-edge vortices (as used by most insects), mosquitoes also employ trailing-edge vortices and a lift mechanism from wing rotation, which enables them to stay ...