The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 is known for many things, including being one of the world's final trijets still in common freighter service in the United States. One of the aircraft's more notable ...

In commercial aviation, landings are designed to be gentle, with the idea that travelers will avoid planes with rough landings—but military aircraft place far less emphasis on comfort. Many people ...

According to the pilots who fly the Airbus A350, it has a noticeably low landing speed for its size, although it isn't enough of a difference to make it much of an outlier for widebody aircraft. The ...

Tilted landing gears, while engineered specifically for the express purpose of helping jets land and take off from runways, might look odd, like the wheels on the wings of a B-52 bomber. If you've ...

The Airbus A350-1000's 6-wheel main landing gear is a mechanical necessity driven by weight, physics, and airport ...

To understand how a commercial jet's suspension works, it helps to first imagine a jet without suspension. The first aircraft landing gear systems were indeed that way. Engineers essentially welded ...

Safe landing even in poor visibility conditions The autopilot in aircraft navigates using GPS signals as standard. However, ...

LYON—The tailstrike of an Air Calédonie-operated ATR 72-200 at Ouvéa-Ouloup Airport in December 2024 was the outcome of the crew's limited local experience and their failure to include a landing ...