Modern aerospace engineering increasingly relies on the seamless integration of advanced performance modelling with state‐of‐the‐art flight control systems. These systems optimise aerodynamic ...

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Greg Mercer is backing Skytron, a four-seat fly-by-wire aircraft aimed at reducing pilot workload ...

ITALIAN CONTROL: Alenia Aermacchi, with parent company Alenia Aeronautica and Selex Galileo, will develop a new, four-channel digital fly-by-wire (FBW) flight control system that is intended for the M ...

Honeywell continues certification and production work for its flight control and aircraft management systems; enters into new long-term agreement with Vertical to unlock speed and efficiencies in ...

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 ...

: Built in the 1950s as North American Aviation’s answer to the Air Force’s next-gen fighter-bomber competition, the F-107A Ultra Sabre packed radical features—from over-fuselage air intakes to early ...

The Skyryse One cockpit design for the fly-by-wire conversion of the Robinson R66 helicopter features a single control and touchscreen displays.

While the F-16 is powerful and agile, the high-performance characteristics can be unforgiving, especially for novice operators. The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is generally described as an ...

Fighter plane tails were dramatically reshaped after the advent of “fly-by-wire” controls, rendering the aircraft’s stability irrelevant. What’s in a tail? The tail of a fighter aircraft, specifically ...