REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. – U.S. Army helicopter avionics experts are asking the Collins Aerospace Hamilton Sundstrand segment in Windsor Locks, Conn., to overhaul and maintain flight-control computers ...

A Skyryse employee demonstrates a tablet designed by the company to replace the traditional stick, rudders and cyclic used to control a helicopter. A licensed driver can easily hop behind the wheel of ...

Aircraft flight control systems have evolved from basic weight shifting and early aerodynamic surfaces to complex mechanical, hydraulic, and modern fly-by-wire arrangements to manage the increasing ...

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.

Following the reveal of its impressive 7-seat eVTOL jet back in March, Lilium has announced that the flight control systems and avionics for its futuristic air taxi will be provided by aerospace firm ...

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 ...

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 ...

The FAA is proposing mandatory inspections for certain Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to check for incorrectly installed bearings in a critical flight control system.

SANTA CLARITA, Calif., 15 Sept. 2011. Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems (CWCES) in Santa Clarita, Calif., is introducing the Versatile Flight Control Computer (VFCC) for high-performance and ...

Any time you change a flight control’s mass, it negatively affects the speed at which the flight control can flutter. The mass of a flight control can change due to drain holes getting plugged as well ...

A flight control computer currently under development at Collins Aerospace will have 20 times the processing power of the avionics maker’s current generation and will eventually enable autonomous ...

Applications for NASA’s next class of flight directors close on Monday, October 12, 2026, and the agency says candidates do not need to have worked as a flight controller first. The openings are at ...