Initial flight testing explores the characteristics of the airplane as it is initially configured. At this point, the designers have done their best to create a machine that is safe to fly, meets all ...

Last month we started our look at testing the airplane in slow flight and exploring stall characteristics. We discussed lateral/directional behavior last time, so we now turn our attention to the ...

Investigators have been left attempting to explain why the crew of Air France flight AF447 failed to recover the Airbus A330 from a high-altitude stall, a predicament which has been the subject of a ...

Safe Flight Instrument has been chosen by Textron Aviation to provide its Stall Warning/Angle of Attack (AoA) System on the Cessna SkyCourier. The system consists of a mounted wing lift transducer and ...

The commuter plane slowed to an unsafe speed as it approached the airport, causing an automatic stall warning, these people said. The pilot pulled back sharply on the plane's controls and added power ...

In a U.S. Air Force “spin prevention” maneuver, all the steps of a spin entry were carried out up to the point where after one turn, the airplane seemingly paused before entering a fully developed ...

Factual documents recently made public by the US National Transportation Safety Board reveal that Gulfstream Aerospace did not fully investigate two wing-drop incidents that preceded the 2 April 2011 ...