The aeroacoustic analysis of high-lift airfoil systems is a critical field of research aimed at understanding and mitigating the noise generated by aircraft during takeoff and landing. High-lift ...

Although an airliner's engines may be quite loud on takeoff, its wings also create a lot of wind noise when it's landing. According to a new study, the latter problem could be addressed with the ...

Many people who live close to airports consistently complain about the noise created by aircraft flying around. Researchers at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, completed a round ...

As part of its Advanced Air Transport Technology (AATT) Project, NASA is working on a new leading-edge wing design that aims to decrease aircraft noise while taking off and landing. When someone ...

ELAS integrates wing leading edge slats with electric ducted fan. Credit: CubCrafters Backcountry aircraft manufacturer CubCrafters is flight testing a lift augmentation device that combines slats ...

United Airlines flight 354 from San Francisco to Boston diverted to Denver due to damage to a wing slat. The damage, a torn wing slat, was noticed by passengers after a loud vibration during takeoff.

French investigators have yet to ascertain the cause of damage to an Airbus A380’s slat assembly, discovered after the aircraft arrived at Nice. The A380, operated by Emirates, had been conducting an ...

No Way Out - American Airlines Flight 191. Five years had passed since the crash of Turkish Air flight 981 outside Paris. In the intervening years, there had been several incidents involving the DC-10 ...