Electra has secured 2,200 pre-orders worth nearly $9 billion for its new EL9 hybrid-electric aircraft variant. Due to its ...

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 ...

There are other ways to increase an airplane’s drag that have fewer side effects than trailing edge flaps do, and so the major reason for flaps is lift, not drag. Just how they produce that ...

The electrically propelled Electra eSTOL aircraft needs just 100 feet to take off ... and already has $9 billion in orders!

Still looking to learn from winged animals, a team of researchers from Princeton University is exploring how feather-like flaps on aircraft wings could improve stability and maneuverability.

Many people do transition training when they buy or are shopping for a new-to-them airplane. This often begins with the pilot ...

AeroTime takes a look at the French startup using sailing technology to build the training aircraft of the future.

Virginia-based aviation company Electra says it managed to get some 2,200 orders for its short-, low-speed take off aircraft, ...

Electra's aircraft looks conventional enough, but it generates ludicrous amounts of lift, to take off and land at incredibly slow speeds, using almost no runway. With US$9 billion in pre-orders, it's ...

An expert explains that weird "barking dog sound" before a plane takes off, and gives us one less thing to worry about the ...

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 ...