A report from U.K. investigators said ice formed on the plane's aileron control system ...

Aircraft performance and flight control systems together determine an aeroplane’s ability to fly safely, efficiently and accurately along a desired trajectory. Performance considerations encompass ...

Pilots praised after UK flight’s controls jammed in mid-air - Ice formed on the aircraft control system during the cargo ...

With all hydraulic systems lost, the crew struggled to control the Boeing 747 using only throttle adjustments. The harrowing ...

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 travel’s worst case scenario has arrived in a form few passengers ever imagined: not terrorism or mechanical failure, but a blast of extreme solar radiation that has corrupted digital flight ...

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 ...

Lockheed Martin's famous-yet-secret Skunk Works is conducting live flight tests of its Smart Adaptive Flight Control Environment (SAFE) autonomous AI system on the X-62A. The system can be ...