A NASA flight research project, designed to test a derivative of the Wright Brothers’ concept of wing-warping to control aircraft turns, indicates the concept works, even at supersonic speeds. This ...

DARPA’s X-65 aircraft is coming together at Aurora Flight Sciences’ Bridgeport, West Virginia, facility. The fuselage is being assembled and awaits its radical diamond-shaped wing. This uncrewed test ...

Airbus is moving ahead with its vision of aircraft with active wing control, following successful wind tunnel tests at its facility near Bristol, England. The company is working to mimic the behavior ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, pilots of an Air France Boeing 777 reported that their aircraft had lost control after it failed to respond to control inputs during landing. Investigators looking over the data ...