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 ...

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 ...

[1] Actuation systems are a vital link in the flight control system, providing the motive force necessary to move flight control surfaces. Whether it is a primary flight control, such as an elevator, ...

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 ...

White's flexible shafts for aerospace applications are used in thrust reverser, flap, slat actuation systems and manual overdrive systems of air and space craft. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., - S.S. White ...

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 ...

Boeing said Thursday that its Gresham factory will start making additional parts for three of its flagship jets, bringing work in house that had previously been done by a supplier in another country.

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 ...

Flexible shafts transmit rotary motion much like a solid shaft, but can be routed over, under and around obstacles where a solid shaft cannot be used. Flexible shafts are used in a variety of ...