Airways

FAA Finalizes AD to Resolve A350 Flight-Control Hazard

FAA AD eliminates the risk of control-surface malfunction linked to hydraulic fluid contamination in A350neo electronics ...
New Atlas

Honeywell to provide flight controls for Lilium's 7-seat air taxi

Following the reveal of its impressive 7-seat eVTOL jet back in March, Lilium has announced that the flight control systems and avionics for its futuristic air taxi will be provided by aerospace firm ...
Aviation Week

Advanced Flight Controls Anchor Dassault Falcon 8X Safety, Efficiency

Dassault’s Falcon business jets have long been praised for their fuel efficiency and flying qualities, and its current flagship Falcon 8X is no exception. Compared to the Gulfstream GVII-G500 that I ...
Hackaday

Helicopter flight controls

Inverted Quadcopter? That generally means a crash is soon to follow. Not so for a new crop of quadcopter fliers. These new quadcopters are capable of sustained inverted flight. We’ve seen inverted ...
usace.army.mil

Aerospace research engineers write flight control textbook

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Research engineers from the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center and Universities Space Research Association have written a textbook to ...
Aviation Today

Gulfstream to Feature Thales Flight Control Computers on G400 and G800

Thales has confirmed that it will be supplying the latest version of its flight control computers to Gulfstream for their G400 and G800 business jets. Gulfstream revealed the two all-new aircraft ...
Flightglobal

Flight-control issue prompts NASA and Lockheed to move X-59 back inside for troubleshooting

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.
Aviation Week

Flight Control System Designs Get Smaller, More Powerful

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 ...
Aviation Today

Lion Air Boeing 737 Investigation Places MAX Flight Controls in Focus

A deeper understanding of the Boeing 737 MAX and how its flight control systems should be operated under certain conditions have become the focus of the ongoing Lion Air flight JT610 crash ...
FLYING Magazine on MSN

AI Air Traffic Control Arrives to Home Flight Simulators

That’s an impressive accomplishment for the narrow slice of the gaming world that enjoys flight simulation software titles.
Fox News

FBI affidavit claims security expert admitted to briefly hacking flight controls

An FBI affidavit claims that a security expert who was pulled off a flight last month for sending tweets about hacking into a plane's controls admitted to briefly taking control of an aircraft and ...