An Emirates Airbus A380 uses reverse thrust after landing at Manchester Airport, captured in slow motion to show the power and detail of the braking sequence. The giant aircraft’s engines open and ...

Airbus is aiming to introduce an engine control unit software modification for CFM International CFM56 powerplants, to reduce the safety risk if A320 pilots attempt a go-around after activating ...

Question: Do they really reverse the engines after landing to slow the aircraft? If so, doesn't this put a huge strain on the engines? — Submitted by reader Andy, Granada Hills, Calif. Answer: Reverse ...

At Luxembourg Airport (ELLX), a Cargolux Boeing 747-400F demonstrates the raw power of reverse thrust during a wet runway landing. Weighing up to 400 tons, the aircraft uses all four engines to slow ...

Preliminary investigation into the AirACT Boeing 747-400 freighter excursion at Hong Kong have found that, after touchdown, forward thrust increased on the outboard right-hand engine – the ...

Inverted Quadcopter? That generally means a crash is soon to follow. Not so for a new crop of quadcopter fliers. These new quadcopters are capable of sustained inverted flight. We’ve seen inverted ...

I read “Exit Excursions” ( AW&ST March 24, p. 42) with interest, because when I was a performance engineer at Douglas Aircraft, none of the FAA-approved landing distance information for the MD-series ...

Landing a massive passenger aircraft requires a host of different systems and procedures to work correctly, and there are many redundancies in place when conditions are less than ideal or the ...