Speed brakes are high-drag devices designed to help aircraft descend faster without gaining excess speed. They're especially useful when a pilot needs to increase the descent rate without shocking the ...

Most pilots understand that Reference Speed, V REF, is a minimum speed that they should never go below during approach and landing, and that is certainly true. But many take that idea one step further ...

Helicopters are incredible machines with amazing capabilities that fixed-wing aircraft do not have. In spite of this, however, helicopters also have limitations — most notably, the maximum speed they ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Pilot Chip Yates talks to Paul Robins and ...