“You don’t know how the plane is set up when it’s on autopilot.” he said, “because those aircraft are very complex and they have, usually, auto throttles and they have auto trim, and they have aileron ...

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

Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences has completed fuselage fabrication for the X-65, an experimental aircraft that ...

The fundamentals of flight have remained the same since the Wright brothers first left the ground, but nearly everything else has changed. Design standards have shifted from simple airframes to ...

Modern aerospace engineering increasingly relies on the seamless integration of advanced performance modelling with state‐of‐the‐art flight control systems. These systems optimise aerodynamic ...

A plane that crashed in Bangor in January sat for longer than the recommended time between deicing and attempting takeoff, federal investigators said Friday.

DARPA has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale aircraft called the X-65. It will test a new technology that replaces moving control surfaces with Active Flow Control (AFC ...

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