Investigators are unable to work out why a take-off control was wrongly-positioned leading to a fatal plane crash at ...

Why can't aircraft controls be wholly automated so as to reduce, or completely do away with the hundreds of buttons in the cockpit? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, ...

DARPA's CRANE program aims to eliminate traditional external aircraft control surfaces by utilizing active flow control (AFC) technology. Aurora Flight Sciences is building the X-65 demonstrator, an ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, pilots of an Air France Boeing 777 reported that their aircraft had lost control after it failed to respond to control inputs during landing. Investigators looking over the data ...

The Philippine air force (PAF) has demonstrated air-to-air operation of indigenous aircraft from a US Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft. The ...

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 ...

China’s 6-tonne autonomous tilt-rotor aircraft is one of the largest unmanned aircraft developed for low-altitude transport ...

Global aviation engineering and defense expert Marshall Aerospace supports Horizon Aircraft's hybrid eVTOL development and certification process TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / June 9, 2026 / New ...