Sikorsky is flying Matrix, its autonomous flight control system, on a “large cargo aircraft”. The statement, which came during a 8 February press conference about recent uninhabited autonomous flights ...

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, ...

German eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft developer Volocopter has set out to put its VoloCity air taxi in the sky just in time for the 2024 Paris Olympics and it's doing its best ...

As more drones begin flying, a traffic management system developed at NASA aims to keep the airspace safe. On Thanksgiving weekend of 2013, Jeff Bezos, then Amazon’s CEO, took to 60 Minutes to make a ...

Bell has unveiled a fly-by-wire control system-equipped 429 twin-engine light helicopter as the company’s new flying testbed. The company’s Aircraft Laboratory for Future Autonomy (ALFA) will be used ...

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 ...

How might the system help prevent operational disruption following a suspected tail strike?