Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as the first awardee in a potential X-plane project designed to explore the use of active ...

BAE Systems has been selected by Boeing to upgrade the fly-by-wire (FBW) flight control computers (FCC) for the F-15EX Eagle II and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft. The FCCs feature common ...

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential $211 million delivery order under a basic ordering agreement to deliver flight control surface spares for the F/A-18 E/F and E/A-18G aircraft to the U.S. Navy ...

The contracts are for the sustainment of spares and repairs crucial for the F/A-18 aircraft’s flight control surfaces (FCS). Logisticians and contracting professionals from NAVSUP (Naval Supply ...

Because of their many redundancies, electronic fly-by-wire controls are actually far safer than traditional hydraulic ones. Any pilot who has ever done a pre-flight check on a Cessna or a Bonanza ...

DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale X-plane to demonstrate the viability of using active flow control (AFC) actuators for primary flight control. The award is Phase 3 of ...

DARPA's X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary Aurora’s Bridgeport, West Virginia facility. The fuselage is taking shape ...

DARPA has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale aircraft called the X-65. It will test a new technology that replaces moving control surfaces with Active Flow Control (AFC ...

The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing (NYSE: BA) a potential $211.9 million delivery order under a basic ordering agreement to repair flight control surfaces on F/A-18 E/F and EA-18G fighter aircraft. The ...

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 ...