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 ...

Bombardier has engaged US manufacturer Eaton to work on additional modifications to the CRJ100/200's flap system, even as a newly redesigned system is about to be tabled for certification. The move ...

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 ...

It wasn’t until the check airmen in an aerial fire fighting organization went to a simulator training center that the takeoff procedure taught by the unit’s check airmen had grievous deficiencies. The ...