Why can't aircraft controls be wholly automated so as to reduce, or completely do away with the hundreds of buttons in the cockpit? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, ...

Simplifying flight—to make it as easy as getting into a car with automatic transmission—has long eluded the aerospace engineers creating new aircraft. While we’ve relied on flight controls such as ...

The Philippine air force (PAF) has demonstrated air-to-air operation of indigenous aircraft from a US Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft. The ...

Aircraft systems control manufacturing firm Moog (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B) has acquired Mineral Wells, Texas-based electronic flight instrument and autopilot technology provider Genesys Aerosystems for ...

A NASA flight research project, designed to test a derivative of the Wright Brothers’ concept of wing-warping to control aircraft turns, indicates the concept works, even at supersonic speeds. This ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Teledyne Controls, LLC, the aircraft data management business and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), has obtained FAA ...

A Skyryse employee demonstrates a tablet designed by the company to replace the traditional stick, rudders and cyclic used to control a helicopter. A licensed driver can easily hop behind the wheel of ...

The new FADEC International partnership will supply and support “full-authority digital electronic control” systems for CFM International's next generation engine - the LEAP – as well as GE Aviation ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teledyne Controls, the aircraft data management business and subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies (NYSE:TDY), has obtained FAA Supplemental Type Certification (STC) ...

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