Passengers looking out the window of a passenger plane will likely have noticed slats on the leading edge of the wing, along with the flaps on the trailing edge of the wing, being extended during ...

A: Flaps (and slats) increase the lift that the wing can produce at a lower speed. To keep the takeoff and landing speeds as low as possible, the design engineers include highly efficient flaps (and ...

NORDAM has reached a strategic agreement with Boeing that will allow the Tulsa-based aerospace company to manufacture spare F/A-18 AD Hornet leading edge flaps, NORDAM CEO Meredith Siegfried Madden ...

Lance Cole (Flight International, 13-19 January) cites the stall/crash of a Lufthansa Boeing 747 at Nairobi in 1974 in his valid criticism of last year's Singapore Airlines (SIA) tail cutaway. The 747 ...

Boeing has developed a solution to curtail the buffeting of the inboard flaps of the 747-8F at the maximum flap. The final fix, which resulted in a modification of the outboard main landing gear doors ...

US FAA proposed an airworthiness directive to require operators of certain 747-400s to modify thrust reverser control system wiring to prevent inadvertent, automatic retractions of leading edge flaps.

FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Lockheed Martin has delivered the first F-2 aft and leading edge flaps for restoration of Japan's F-2 fighter fleet to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The F-2, ...

MAGELLAN AEROSPACE has Lockheed Martin contract to supply machined titanium wing tie bars for F-35 leading edge flaps out of Kitchener, ON in 2023-2027. Lockheed Martin has a global supply chain for F ...

Machining and manufacturing group Magellan Aerospace has a new multi-year contract from Lockheed Martin Corp. to supply machined titanium components for the F-35 program. The parts to be supplied are ...