DARPA's CRANE program aims to develop aircraft that replace traditional external control surfaces (like flaps and rudders) with Active Flow Control (AFC) technology. Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing ...

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential $211 million delivery order under a basic ordering agreement to deliver flight control surface spares for the F/A-18 E/F and E/A-18G aircraft to the U.S. Navy ...

The Wright brothers' success stemmed from their innovative three-axis flight control system (roll, pitch, yaw), which they patented, not just the application of existing aerodynamic principles. While ...

The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing (NYSE: BA) a potential $211.9 million delivery order under a basic ordering agreement to repair flight control surfaces on F/A-18 E/F and EA-18G fighter aircraft. The ...

Modern aerospace engineering increasingly relies on the seamless integration of advanced performance modelling with state‐of‐the‐art flight control systems. These systems optimise aerodynamic ...

The contracts are for the sustainment of spares and repairs crucial for the F/A-18 aircraft’s flight control surfaces (FCS). Logisticians and contracting professionals from NAVSUP (Naval Supply ...

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.

Emerging electromechanical actuation technologies for flight control systems will support more electric architecture. Credit: Collins Aerospace With a new age of electrically driven advanced air ...

Boeing and its research subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences have unveiled a new high-speed X-plane that could revolutionize warfare. Aurora told Newsweek the X-plane, which combines the agility of ...

Hydraulic fluid exposure can contaminate a key flight control data interface on Airbus A350s and in extreme cases lead to uncommanded flight control surface movements, prompting the manufacturer and ...

Key Points and Summary - Largely forgotten, the X-44 MANTA (Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft) was an ambitious concept in the late 1990s by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, NASA, and the U.S. Air Force to ...

The images were released during Gen. Brown’s keynote speech at the 2023 Air, Space & Cyber Conference. The U.S. Air Force released today two new photos of the B-21 Raider bomber, including one from a ...