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 ...

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 final airworthiness directive (AD) issued by the US FAA today calls on operators of Rolls-Royce RB211-powered Boeing 747-400 aircraft to make a modification to the aircraft's thrust reverser systems ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...