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 ...

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, ...