French aerospace research agency Onera has conducted wind tunnel tests of an active flow control device intended to increase ...

The X-62 VISTA test jet is moving into a new phase, with a fresh round of upgrades designed to push autonomous flight from controlled experiments toward operationally realistic combat scenarios. By ...

The US Navy (USN) has completed its first test flight using an uncrewed aircraft control station that will be installed on the service’s fleet of aircraft carriers. In a demonstration event on 7 ...

The aircraft is meant to develop and mature rotor blown wing design, which can now be applied to larger aircraft for unmanned aerial logistics and even tactical ISR missions. Sikorsky announced it has ...

Aerodynamic modelling and flight testing remain at the forefront of aircraft design and verification, providing the essential linkage between computational simulations and real-world performance.

The US Air Force (USAF) is demonstrating significant advancements in the ability of its existing fighter aircraft to integrate with and control new pilotless combat jets. During recent training ...

Skyryse has begun for-credit certification flight testing of the Skyryse One, a new-production Robinson R66 light helicopter equipped with SkyOS, a fly-by-wire flight control system with a joystick ...

General Atomics and Anduril are simultaneously testing their respective YFQ-42 and YFQ-44 aerial drones. Only one of the two will ultimately win the Air Force’s “Collaborative Combat Aircraft” ...

SpaceX’s Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test flight Thursday, marking the second launch in a row that the vehicle has run into a fatal problem on its way to orbit. The ...

Fault injection is usually discussed in the context of security, where adversaries deliberately induce faults to bypass protections or extract sensitive information. In safety engineering, by contrast ...