Researchers attached covert feather-inspired flaps to a 3D-printed model airplane wing and mounted it in a wind tunnel to explore the role of covert feathers in bird flight. By precisely measuring ...

A plane carrying 104 passengers had to abort its takeoff from a Texas airport after a fire broke out in one of the wings.

The exact cause of the Jeju Air crash remains unclear, and the investigation is complicated because the black boxes stopped recording four minutes before impact.

If you watch an airplane take off, you’ll see the wings change shape using flaps from the back of the wings. The flaps help ...

Shortly after takeoff on Sunday afternoon, the flight deck radioed the tower to say that the aircraft had experienced an ...

By attaching flexible plastic strips – “covert flaps” – to the top of a wing, the team has demonstrated impressive gains in aircraft performance at low speeds. Wind tunnel tests and RC ...