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Inside the Boeing 737 MAX's flight control system

The Boeing 737 MAX is one of the most popular aircraft ever built, but it has significant differences from other aircraft currently on sale. It's extremely analog in comparison to contemporary ...
NextBigFuture

DARPA and Aurora Flight Sciences Building Full Scale X-65 Plane With No Moving Control

DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale X-plane to demonstrate the viability of using active flow control (AFC) actuators for primary flight control. The award is Phase 3 of ...
Aviation Week

Flight Control System Designs Get Smaller, More Powerful

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 ...
Aviation Week

Eurocopter Demonstrates Fiber Optic Primary Flight Control System

EUROCOPTER demonstrated a fiber optic primary flight control system on the EC 135 helicopter in Munich, Germany Jan. 28. The "fly by light" system is a "quantum leap over conventional mechanical ...
SiliconANGLE

Skyryse raises $300M+ for its AI flight control system

Skyryse Inc., the developer of a flight control system with artificial intelligence features, today announced that it has closed a funding round worth more than $300 million. The Series C deal was led ...