The management of The Plain Dealer has made another incremental change to the newspaper format that has reduced what once was a great paper to what it has become today. I refer to the advertising ...

"I always use flaps for climb. I get more lift that way." Some would call this statement perfectly logical, because flaps do increase lift and increased lift certainly ought to make an airplane climb ...

• Split flaps are not used much on modem aircraft. They are somewhat similar to plain flaps with one difference. Part of the wing in the same apparent location (if the point of view is from above the ...