Aircraft performance and flight control systems together determine an aeroplane’s ability to fly safely, efficiently and accurately along a desired trajectory. Performance considerations encompass ...

Emerging electromechanical actuation technologies for flight control systems will support more electric architecture. Credit: Collins Aerospace With a new age of electrically driven advanced air ...

Lockheed Martin's famous-yet-secret Skunk Works is conducting live flight tests of its Smart Adaptive Flight Control Environment (SAFE) autonomous AI system on the X-62A. The system can be ...

The Boeing 737 MAX is one of the most popular aircraft ever built, but it has significant differences from other aircraft currently on sale. It's extremely analog in comparison to contemporary ...

BAE Systems’ Airborne Power Systems team advances electric flight. Paid content by BAE Systems. Tucked into BAE Systems’ growing campus in Endicott, New Y ...

Autonomy is no longer science fiction. Advanced flight control systems that augment pilot decisions with artificial intelligence and machine learning are moving into mainstream avionics. These systems ...

NASA and partner Lockheed Martin are evaluating a newly discovered flight-control problem with the agency’s X-59 supersonic demonstrator jet, and have moved the aircraft back inside for evaluation.

Piloting a cruise-capable eVTOL aircraft will be unlike flying anything that's come before it, thanks to fully digital fly-by-wire flight control systems. We jumped in Lilium's motion-rig simulator to ...

In an aviation milestone, Piasecki Aircraft Corporation (PiAC) successfully conducted the first flight of its innovative proof of concept tilt-duct Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System Demonstration ...

The 787 can delivery an exceptionally smooth ride for passengers.