Adverse weather can cause chaos, and air traffic control towers are so leanly staffed at many airports that a sick call can ...

Flying is dangerous, but modern software and hardware can take a basic technology that hasn't changed in 100 years and make it safe. A new company called Airhart Aeronautics in Long Beach, California, ...

The Embraer Praetor 500 features an advanced, proprietary fly-by-wire flight control system (FBW FCS) that significantly enhances pilot performance and aircraft safety by making continuous, subtle ...

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 ...

What's wrong with the system? For starters, there's an acute shortage of air traffic controllers, who are responsible for directing about 45,000 flights carrying 2.9 million passengers every day. The ...

An ATC outage at Newark airport has drawn more attention to an outdated system. Plans for a new air traffic control system were announced Thursday by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy amid a ...

Airbus Helicopters' new FlightLab flying laboratory is already yielding results, successfully testing a fly-by-wire system for Airbus’ CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL prototype that reduces the primary ...