CubCrafters' NX Cub test aircraft with the ELAS system mounted on the leading edge of the wing. The company began flight testing last Friday. Yakima, Washington-based CubCrafters is already known for ...

CubCrafters has introduced Electric Lift Augmenting Slats (ELAS), an innovation designed to dramatically increase wing lift for aircraft. ELAS combines electric ducted fans with leading-edge lifting ...

On 11 May a British Airways Boeing 747-400 carrying 283 people almost stalled just after take-off from Johannesburg following a spurious systems warning that automatically disabled some wing ...

ELAS integrates wing leading edge slats with electric ducted fan. Credit: CubCrafters Backcountry aircraft manufacturer CubCrafters is flight testing a lift augmentation device that combines slats ...