The amount of testing required for a brand new aircraft type is tremendous, and that's a good thing. Take a look at the Boeing 787, for example. It's the first commercial aircraft built primarily from ...

Pilots sometimes need to operate at slow speeds—during tight turns and landings, for instance—and good low-speed handling is ...

The 777X is designed to operate at the very limits of airport infrastructure, wing loading, and aerodynamic efficiency.

The lowest airspeed (stall speed) for most fixed-wing aircraft is primarily determined by its wing loading and the wing's maximum lift coefficient. Claims of extremely low or "no" stall speeds, often ...

The full-sized wing developed and built for AeroVironment's unmanned, high-altitude Global Observer has successfully completed wing load testing, the company says. The tests demonstrate the integrity ...

Measurement of flight speeds of 138 species of bird reveals that mass and wing loading do not scale according to aerodynamic theory but vary significantly depending on phylogeny. Aerodynamic scaling ...