UTC Aerospace Systems is developing new "fully-distributed" electric flap and slat control systems for next-generation commercial aircraft such as Boeing's proposed New Mid-market Airplane (NMA). The ...

Pilatus, the aircraft manufacturer located in Stans, Switzerland, produces a uniquely versatile, multipurpose aircraft, the PC-12. As a business aircraft, it offers multiple configurations ranging ...

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 ...

For an aircraft designed with powerful high-lift devices for hopping in and out of short, unimproved runways, the flap system on the Pilatus PC-24 looks surprisingly small and unobtrusive. But to ...

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 ...