Aircraft operated by Emirates and Qantas require inspections, with immediate checks needed for five of the jets.

Airbus on Tuesday said it would inspect 16 A380 planes, five of them immediately, after cracks were found in a key wing ...

Earlier this week, a flap came loose on a Delta Air Lines operated Boeing 737 mid-flight. Fortunately, the plane landed safely and no one was injured. Parts falling off of a passenger jet's wing ...

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency is asking some operators of Airbus SE A380 jets to perform additional inspections ...

EASA has ordered wing mid-spar inspections on 16 A380 after cracks were found, including 15 Emirates aircraft and one Qantas ...

Airplanes don't need their wings to be symmetrical to take to the skies. At first, planes were designed with perpendicular wings to the plane's fuselage because every flying creature in nature ...

The Breakthrough Laminar Aircraft Demonstrator in Europe (BLADE) project is part of the Clean Sky Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft (SWFA) programme, an extensive, 50% European Union-funded, multi-partner ...

Ask someone to picture an airplane and they’re likely to think of what is essentially a tube with wings and a stabilizing tail tacked onto one end of said tube. Yet it is also no secret that the lift ...

Making the wings on passenger jets thinner and longer can go a long way toward reducing drag and making them more efficient, but they vibrate like crazy. Engineers at NASA and Boeing are now tackling ...

A PLANE with 267 passengers on board has crashed into a radar at an airport in Turkey – destroying its wing and leaving a hole in the jet’s side. The Boeing 777-3Q8 Turkish Airlines ...