Horizon Aircraft selected BETA Technologies' fly-by-wire flight control system for the Cavorite X7 as the hybrid-electric VTOL advances toward certification. BETA Technologies provides the fly-by-wire ...

It’s the stuff of science fiction: walk out to your airplane, strap in, and, instead of a control wheel and assortment of dials and levers, you are presented with a slender device resembling an iPad.

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 ...

AIR, the leading manufacturer and developer of Smart Aircraft, today announced a strategic partnership with Elmo Motion ...

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 ...

What control actually turns your airplane? Aileron? Rudder? The answer may surprise you. Your airplane needs a certain minimum amount of energy, call it airspeed, to lift off the ground and fly. If ...

Dedicated flight controls (yokes/sidesticks, rudder pedals, and throttle quadrants) are crucial for achieving a realistic and immersive experience in modern flight simulators. These controls allow ...

NASA and partner Lockheed Martin are evaluating a newly discovered flight-control problem with the agency’s X-59 supersonic demonstrator jet, and have moved the aircraft back inside for evaluation.