In the early 1990s, NASA began a new project to determine how engines and flight controls could work together to improve airplane performance. The program, called Advanced Controls Technology for ...

Aerodynamic modelling and flight testing remain at the forefront of aircraft design and verification, providing the essential linkage between computational simulations and real-world performance.

The US Navy (USN) has completed its first test flight using an uncrewed aircraft control station that will be installed on the service’s fleet of aircraft carriers. In a demonstration event on 7 ...

In November, Beta Technologies (South Burlington, Vt., U.S.) announced completion of its first Alia conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) aircraft flight, which was also the first electric aircraft ...

As a result, flight testing is vastly sped up because the aircraft can shift to a new iteration without having to land and head back to the hangar. In addition, SAFE uses AI and machine learning to ...

Aurora Flight Sciences and DARPA are continuing the assembly of the X-65 CRANE demonstrator, targeting a first flight by 2027. Aurora Flight Sciences' (AFS) latest X-Plane, now designated the X-65, is ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Textron Aviation today announced that its Cessna Citation CJ4 Gen3 prototype aircraft took to the skies for the first time in early October. The announcement of this ...

The high-speed uncrewed test aircraft performed its first flight at Edwards AFB, just a year after the launch of the development. Hermeus, a U.S. company aiming to develop hypersonic aircraft quickly ...

Northrop Grumman’s Talon IQ tests modular autonomy software switching mid-flight, boosting open-architecture defense aviation ...

Honda Aircraft has finished certification flight testing for the Garmin Autoland system it now offers on its HondaJet HA-420 Elite II. The testing was completed as part of the Federal Aviation ...

MARINA — Joby Aviation, on its way to commercial flight of its all-electric, vertical take-off and landing air taxi, is preparing for final assembly of the first of several conforming aircraft ...