The U.S. Air Force’s iconic B-52 bomber was ingeniously designed with landing gear that can be positioned up to 20 degrees left or right of the centerline for both takeoff and landing. A crabbed ...

Short takeoff and landing (STOL) might prove a practical alternative to VTOL in the early days of electric aviation. VTOL aircraft use an enormous amount of energy lifting themselves off the ground, ...

The article categorizes aircraft landing gear into fixed/retractable and conventional (tailwheel)/tricycle types, with maintenance standards detailed in FAA AC 43.13-1B and components classified under ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wild aircraft are the hallmark of AirVenture, the world’s largest get-together for pilots, which starts today in Oshkosh, ...

This remarkable hybrid-electric aircraft has raked in more than US$8 billion on the back of its remarkable promise: quiet, long-range, low-emission flights using almost no runway for takeoff and ...

Pivotal (formerly known as Opener) has recently begun taking orders for its first light eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft produced at scale. Based in Palo Alto, California, ...

For too many years aviation lacked a reliable, up-to-the-minute system for reporting runway surface conditions for pilots to make accurate landing performance assessments. Rather, we depended on ...

Archer Aviation Maker-an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The Maker is a precursor to the eventual production aircraft Archer plans to deliver by 2024. An idea hatched by a couple of ...

A remote stretch of Interstate 40 in rural North Carolina became a runway on Saturday evening when a light aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing on the busy highway while dodging passing ...