Full-regime automatic flight control systems (AFCS) consist of at least a flight director (FD) and an autopilot (AP). “Full regime” means the AFCS has enough modes to control the aircraft from after ...

Heavier-than-air flight control systems evolved from simple weight shifting to complex fly-by-wire, driven by the need to manage increasing aircraft speed, weight, and pilot workload. Aircraft ...

Poised at the intersection of human factors and automatic flight control, human-centric control systems in aviation dynamics seek to integrate the pilot’s cognitive and physical capabilities ...

The Boeing Company, Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, was awarded an approximate $8 million firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of the Digital Automatic Flight Control Systems to support the ...

NEW DELHI — India’s Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) has joined with French aerospace company Sagem to manufacture automatic flight-control systems and sensors. HAL entered into a contract with Sagem, ...

Skyroads Whitepaper: UAM won’t get off the ground in time without open, automated interoperable flight systems. Munich, 03 March 2022 – The German Air Traffic Management startup Skyroads today ...

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 ...

Team Comprised of Director of Fly-By-Wire Control System, Sergio Ferreira, Director of Vehicle Management Systems, Damien Bardon and Flight Control and Avionics Program Lead, Perrine Mathieu Archer’s ...

The DRDO has created a new Flight Control Systems centre to integrate the development and certification of avionics and flight systems. The centre will conduct simulation training for pilots.

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.