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 ...

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 ...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ITT Inc. (NYSE: ITT) and its Enidine and Aerospace Controls brands will showcase a comprehensive cabin and aircraft interior solutions portfolio at the Aircraft ...