Pilots work together for all stages of flight, but on an Airbus aircraft, it is far more difficult to tell what inputs the ...

Secondary control surfaces, such as trim tabs, flaps, slats, and spoilers, augment primary controls to optimize aircraft performance across various flight conditions. Each secondary control has ...

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 ...

Imagine the increased confidence among pilots if airplane controls seamlessly blended their intuition with next-generation technology. BAE Systems is innovating flight critical control systems that ...

Air travel’s worst case scenario has arrived in a form few passengers ever imagined: not terrorism or mechanical failure, but a blast of extreme solar radiation that has corrupted digital flight ...

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 ...

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 ...