Automatic landing control systems enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to execute precise, reliable touchdowns without human intervention. These systems integrate guidance, navigation and control ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time, an automatic landing system called Autoland was used to land a plane in Colorado after pilots reported losing ...

When you’re flying in a small plane, the possibility of the pilot becoming incapacitated is usually filed in the very-unlikely-to-happen category. But it happens, and with no other pilot on board, ...

Forty years ago, Alan Klapmeier, the co-founder of aircraft manufacturer Cirrus, was involved in a midair collision. With his plane missing part of a wing, Klapmeier was (just barely) able to land, ...

Russia’s domestically-powered Yakovlev MC-21-310 is conducting a series of automatic landing tests as part of its certification programme. Prototype 73051 carried out the landings, under ICAO Category ...

For the first time, an automatic landing system called Autoland was used to land a plane in Colorado after pilots reported losing cabin pressure mid-flight. The safety system activated itself and took ...