The fundamentals of flight have remained the same since the Wright brothers first left the ground, but nearly everything else has changed. Design standards have shifted from simple airframes to ...

In aviation the term fly-by-wire means that the control surfaces of an aircraft are operated by actuators rather than via cables and rods, with electrical signals transmitting information from the ...

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 ...

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