Stall accidents remain a leading cause of fatal general aviation accidents despite extensive training, highlighting a deficiency in current training methods. Neither technological advancements (AOA ...

(August 2011) After the nearly miraculous** retrieval of the black boxes** from Air France Flight 447, the Airbus A330 that disappeared in the mid-Atlantic in May 2009 with 228 souls aboard, it ...

A 24,000-foot-per-minute descent rate doesn’t leave much margin for recovery in any fixed-wing aircraft. In the case of the Raytheon Hawker 800XP that crashed near Bath Township, Michigan on October ...

As we saw last time, some airplanes exhibit degraded pitch stability and a tendency to pitch up as the angle of attack increases up to and beyond the point where the stall begins. This is never a ...

As the angle of attack is increased on a high-performance airfoil, a small amount of separation occurs near the leading edge. This separation causes the boundary layer to transition from laminar to ...

Editor's note: Air France Flight 447 was en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro when it went down over the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people aboard. It took 11 months to locate the ...