NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU), New York's Hometown Airline™, today announces plans to retrofit its entire Airbus fleet with noise-reducing vortex generators. This move reflects ...

Lufthansa has taken delivery of its first Airbus A320 with vortex generators, which will reduce the noise produced by aircraft during its final approach by up to two decibels. Lufthansa said it is the ...

Russian researchers are refining the wing design for a proposed short-haul aircraft with overwing-mounted engines, to increase laminar flow. Initial models of the experimental aircraft design ...

SPECIAL REPORT / The name – vortex generator – sounds more complex than the device itself. Yet the small component developed by German researchers provides a big solution to noise produced by one of ...

Differential flap settings and spoiler changes hold key for tackling hazard Researchers are planning flight tests of an Airbus A340-300 testbed in mid-2006 to evaluate the effect of differential flap ...

Engineers in Sweden hope to improve the efficiency of trucks by using a novel electronic vortex generator to reduce drag. Vortex generators are already widely used in the aerospace industry to enhance ...

ANACORTES — Anni Brogan, president of Micro AeroDynamics, walked into the company’s hangar at the Anacortes Airport, where a 1946 single-engine aircraft sat idle. She approached the red and white ...