Lam Aviation advertised substantial performance gains (speed, fuel, climb, useful load) on a test aircraft, initially implying these improvements stemmed from their novel Lam aileron. The Lam aileron ...

British major aerospace and defence group BAE Systems (BAES) announced on Wednesday that its MAGMA unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) had become the first aircraft ever to be manoeuvred in flight using ...

Control surfaces on aircraft — the moving elevators, flaps, and ailerons on the trailing edges of the wings and tail — have long been used by pilots to control a plane’s pitch, roll, low-speed lift, ...

The jet aircraft ' X-65 ' uses pressurized jets called 'active flow control (AFC)' to control the aircraft, rather than 'moving wings' that include rudders, elevators, flaps, ailerons, etc. We have ...

Aviation Partners FlexSys, in discussions with four OEMs about possibilities, has identified a KC-135 inboard flap as one of the first applications. With the pliability of modern aircraft skin ...

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