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 ...

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 ...

Three-year, follow-on award for flaperons, outboard leading edge flaps worth “tens of millions” Low-rate initial production starts this year Fiber-reinforced composite, titanium “…moving forward in an ...

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, ...

“I always use flaps for climb. I get more lift that way.” Some would call this statement perfectly logical, because flaps do increase lift and increased lift certainly ought to make an airplane climb ...

CubCrafters' NX Cub test aircraft with the ELAS system mounted on the leading edge of the wing. The company began flight testing last Friday. Yakima, Washington-based CubCrafters is already known for ...