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

Photos, videos and flight tracking data reveal what happened before the flight crashed less than a minute after taking off.

A European project to design a wing for a next-generation regional aircraft is closing in on the production of a series of ...

An airplane wing part landed in a Raleigh driveway near Banbury Road and Wade Ave. In a statement Wednesday afternoon, the ...

The FAA confirmed that the part found in the driveway of a Raleigh, North Carolina, home was a piece of a wing flap that ...

ER, operated by Delta, lost part of its wing flap during flight from Atlanta to Raleigh-Durham, landing safely with 109 ...

See the leading designs. Taylor Rains. Updated November 5, 2024 at 12:30 PM. Copied; ... A blended-wing plane would have a much wider cabin than a traditional tube-and-wing design, ...

In short, deicing is necessary because snow and ice on airplane wings can decrease lift by as much as 30%. Lift is the vertical upward force that keeps a plane in the sky. It is generated when air ...

A missing part of a wing from a Delta Air Lines 737 that landed Tuesday night at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, may ...

For example, most modern aircraft use bleed air systems, which channel hot air from the engine’s compressor through interior ducts to the leading edges of the wings and other critical areas to ...