A damaged contact in the No 1 flap retract relay of a Challenger 604 meant that it failed to arrest an uncommanded flap movement. © UK AAIB ...

A group of senior Air India pilots recreated on simulators some adverse conditions, such as flying with higher weight and temperature, and with landing gear down and retracted wing flaps at 50 feet, ...

Lance Cole (Flight International, 13-19 January) cites the stall/crash of a Lufthansa Boeing 747 at Nairobi in 1974 in his valid criticism of last year's Singapore Airlines (SIA) tail cutaway. The 747 ...

Question: If flaps don’t increase lift, then why is a small amount of flaps used in soft-field takeoffs for some aircraft? Answer: Who said flaps don’t increase lift? Flaps do increase lift. Reference ...

Canadian investigators have disclosed that a Boeing 737-400 crew had been experiencing a flap problem before the aircraft suffered a main landing-gear collapse at Montreal. The Nolinor twinjet had ...

A: Flaps (and slats) increase the lift that the wing can produce at lower speed. To keep the takeoff and landing speeds as low as possible, the design engineers include highly efficient flaps (and ...