SPRINGFIELD, Va. — The world’s most popular commercial aircraft, the Boeing 737, has a design flaw in its rudder system that could cause the plane to roll uncontrollably and crash under certain ...
2004-10-27 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday said the crash of American Airlines Flight 587, the second-worst in American history, was caused by the pilot's ...
The headline on a May 29 article about a National Transportation Safety Board recommendation implied that the agency blamed the rudder design for the 2001 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in New ...
SailGP's latest innovation isn't just about performance on the water—it's in how the boats fly. At the Geneva stop, teams ...
For several years Rolls-Royce has been using its design and test facilities to study the interactions between hull, propeller and rudder. The result is an innovative Rolls-Royce propulsion system, ...
Problems remain with the rudder design of Airbus jets like the A300 model that crashed in the Rockaways five years ago, the National Transportation Safety Board said yesterday. Government agencies in ...
In the wake of the American Airlines Flight 587 accident, manufacturers of large transports are scrutinizing the systems that affect pilots' feel of the rudder and limit its travel. Large rudder ...