Flexible shafts assist aircraft’s flap actuator system. Pilatus, the aircraft manufacturer located in Stans, Switzerland, produces a uniquely versatile, multipurpose aircraft, the PC-12. As a business ...

Emerging electromechanical actuation technologies for flight control systems will support more electric architecture. Credit: Collins Aerospace With a new age of electrically driven advanced air ...

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has donated an aircraft flap assembly worth more than $774,000 to the University of Connecticut’s School of Engineering for research labs and training ...

UK investigators have disagreed with Bombardier over the cause of a Challenger 604’s uncommanded – and unarrested – full flap extension at high speed, during a climb out of Farnborough. Bombardier had ...

Eaton has tested its first electronically synchronised flap drive mechanism for an aircraft. The system, designed and built specifically for the Embraer Phenom 100 very light jet, will reduce aircraft ...