Autonomy is no longer science fiction. Advanced flight control systems that augment pilot decisions with artificial ...

Simplifying flight—to make it as easy as getting into a car with automatic transmission—has long eluded the aerospace engineers creating new aircraft. While we’ve relied on flight controls such as ...

A NASA flight research project, designed to test a derivative of the Wright Brothers’ concept of wing-warping to control aircraft turns, indicates the concept works, even at supersonic speeds. This ...

DARPA’s X-65 aircraft is coming together at Aurora Flight Sciences’ Bridgeport, West Virginia, facility. The fuselage is being assembled and awaits its radical diamond-shaped wing. This uncrewed test ...

A research team has demonstrated the use of a novel control method in an aircraft with no tail. The technology allows an aircraft to be as smooth and sleek as possible, making it safer to fly in ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global military aircraft flight control system (FCS) market report. This research report also lists four ...

Airbus is moving ahead with its vision of aircraft with active wing control, following successful wind tunnel tests at its facility near Bristol, England. The company is working to mimic the behavior ...

Tv in the Cockpit: The Control of Landing Aircraft Now flying B-707’s on round-the-world flights to the Far East, MARIUS LODEESEN learned to fly with the U.S. Navy at Pensacola, Florida, after getting ...