Equally, ice on certain parts of the airframe can affect the aircraft's controllability by greatly affecting the ability of the flight-control surfaces to have their desired effect. NOVA ...

But nature has other ideas. Birds achieve flight control through complex, coordinated movements where different body parts can affect multiple degrees of freedom simultaneously. Now, researchers ...

flight control surface work, or something to that effect." While one could argue that's part of the deal with airplanes and that they must undergo tests at times, the other side of that is this ...

China has stunned the world with the flight test of a new crewed heavy fighter jet featuring a tailless design and stealth ...

pilot inputs do not directly move control surfaces The A320 is the first civilian aircraft with a digital fly-by-wire system.