ARLINGTON, Va. – Aerospace designers at Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. in Manassas, Va. are moving to flight demonstration in a project to push the bounds of future electric aircraft by eliminating ...

ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. military researchers are trying to push the bounds of future electric aircraft by eliminating control surfaces like ailerons, rudders, and flaps, and instead using actuators or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Skyryse employee demonstrates a tablet designed by the company to replace the traditional stick, rudders and cyclic used to control a helicopter. A licensed driver can easily hop behind the wheel of ...

Every commercial flight in the world is assigned a four-digit code before it pushes back from the gate. The code appears on ...

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 ...