Icon’s AOA resembles a small airfoil that moves in relation to the aircraft’s angle of attack. It’s something Icon’s chief test pilot Brett Davenport calls an audacious move, ...

Going up or down are fundamental skills that are frequently neglected in a training regimen that concentrates on ...

The FAA has been actively promoting angle-of-attack (AoA) indication systems as a means of reducing general aviation loss of control (LOC) accidents for several years. An analysis of nearly 2,500 ...

Unambiguous procedures for installing angle-of-attack sensors on Yakovlev Superjet 100s are being developed after the fatal crash of a Gazpromavia aircraft – as well as an earlier incident ...

WASHINGTON — In 2014, Lufthansa flight 1829 took off from Bilbao, Spain, and was ascending normally when the plane’s nose unexpectedly dropped. The plane — an Airbus A321 with 109 passengers ...

Angle of attack indicators are common in military aircraft, and there are some available for general aviation airplanes. But most civilian pilots are taught to use airspeed as the indicator of an ...

"Angle of Attack, Air France 447 and the Future of Aviation Safety" by Roger Rapoport and Shem Malmquist is now on sale from Curt Lewis Aviation Books.

"Angle Of Attack" chronicles the 100-year history of Naval aviation — from wobbly gliders and the shipboard landing in 1911 to modern supersonic jets and unmanned aerial vehicles. The two-hour ...

Today, aviation experts say, the angle-of-attack sensor on Boeing jets will get fresh scrutiny after two Boeing 737 MAX airplanes crashed, in Ethiopia last week and in Indonesia in October.