Pilots often overlook that stall speed is not fixed at the 1G value but increases significantly with G-loading, leading to dangerous accelerated stalls, especially during low-altitude maneuvers. The ...

Initial flight testing explores the characteristics of the airplane as it is initially configured. At this point, the designers have done their best to create a machine that is safe to fly, meets all ...

Structural icing accidents, particularly during approach after exiting icing conditions, are frequently caused by tail stalls, not wing stalls, with recovery procedures being critically opposite ...

When a fighter pilot engages an enemy at near sonic speeds, abrupt wing stall is definitely not part of his flight plan. Yet for the past 50 years, all aircraft that can operate at velocities near the ...

Icon Aircraft wants to make flying both more accessible and fun with its A5 amphibious airplane. But it also wants to make flying safer, and today it introduced an instrument that will provide pilots ...

It has taken more than a million fine samples of aerodynamic force and airflow combined to determine what makes a hummingbird's wings so adept at hovering. The team led by David Lentink, an assistant ...

Illustration of the airflow along an airfoil that exhibits leading-edge stall behavior. Notice the formation of a “short bubble” at a critical point along the leading edge. When the AOA is increased ...

Let me start with the same caution as in yesterday's item about this sad incident: it can take months or years to get the full explanation of an airplane crash, sometimes the real answer is never ...

Wind tunnel tests of scale-model humpback whale flippers have revealed that the scalloped, bumpy flipper is a more efficient wing design than is currently used by the aeronautics industry on airplanes ...