A team of researchers from Princeton University is exploring how feather-like flaps on aircraft wings could improve stability ...

Flaps, or more properly “trailing edge high lift devices,” have two functions—they increase drag and enable the wing to sustain lift at a lower speed. The purpose of increasing drag is not ...

A Delta Air Lines Boeing 757-200 landed safely in Atlanta after the crew declared a flap disagree emergency mid-flight. Flight DL2728 was one of nine Delta Air Lines flights between Savannah and ...

Flaps are movable surfaces on the trailing edge of an aircraft’s wings that help control lift and drag (or friction). A senior DGCA official explained that “as a company policy, the crew were ...

The aircraft serves in an aggressor-training role ... notably by the incorporation of maneuvering flaps. Full-span leading-edge flaps work in conjunction with trailing-edge flaps and are operated ...

The flaps are used to increase lift and drag, which helps control the aircraft’s speed during takeoff and landing. The ailerons are used to control the plane's roll, or tilting motion ...

But this wasn’t just any model aircraft. Across the top of its wings, Wissa and her team had carefully attached three rows of thin, flexible plastic flaps, hinged with tape. Guided by a mini ...