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 ...

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 ...

DARPA has decided to move forward with a new X-plane designed by Aurora Flight Sciences to demonstrate how to use active flow control (AFC) technology as the primary flight control system. Aurora ...

Operators of certain Airbus A350s have been instructed urgently to implement a number of operational and dispatch restrictions over a software snag which could lead to loss of elevator control. The ...

United Airlines will move about 900 employees and its primary flight control center from the Willis Tower to Arlington Heights next year, officials said Thursday. The carrier will be using an existing ...

A U.S. Navy Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Equipment) stands watch in primary flight control aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), Aug. 21. US Navy Photo U.S. Secretary ...

United Airlines plans to move its primary flight control center to Arlington, the suburban Chicago town that may lure the NFL’s Bears, from its headquarters at Blackstone’s Willis Tower. United will ...