The first unmanned aircraft control station has been fitted in a US Navy (USN) aircraft carrier – a major milestone in the service’s journey to integrate uncrewed jets into the carrier air wing. The ...
DARPA has awarded Aurora Flight Sciences a phase 2 contract for its CRANE (Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors) program, following wind tunnel testing of a small-scale X-plane that ...
Sweden has promised Ukraine its first-ever airborne control and surveillance aircraft. Experts told BI the planes will boost the effectiveness of Ukraine's promised F-16s. The control aircraft can ...
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 ...
"Advanced Control of Aircraft, Missiles and Spacecraft introduces the reader to the concepts of modern control theory applied to the design and analysis of general flight control systems in a concise ...
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 ...
New pilots of tricycle-gear aircraft must learn to steer using rudder pedals and throttle, not the yoke, while maintaining a slow, controlled taxi speed to stay on the centerline. Achieving proper ...
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) plans to increase spending for its next airborne nuclear command-and-control aircraft, and it most likely will choose used aircraft. USAF currently uses an aging fleet of ...