“Removing a pair of eyes comes at a cost,” warned James Blundell, an aviation human factors researcher at Cranfield University in the U.K. He and his colleagues are studying how unexpected events like ...

The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we should copy its ...

New technologies could help air traffic control operate more smoothly, but it won't get rolled out overnight.

These are a redesign of the flight control computer with a modern processor, the V-22 Enhanced Cockpit Technology Replacement (VeCToR) which will replace obsolete hardware inside the cockpit, and ...

In order to solve the difficult problem of pigeon robots in outdoor flight altitude control, Prof. Zhendong Dai's team at the School of Electromechanics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and ...

This synchro-phasing is an additional benefit of the flight control computer, primarily designed to maneuver the aircraft — substituting traditional control surfaces — by adjusting the distribution of ...

Innovative Solutions & Support Acquires License for Honeywell’s Display Generator and Flight Control Computer Product Line, Strengthening Position in Military Market ...

It was announced on Tuesday that British Aerospace (BAE) Systems was selected to upgrade the fly-by-wire (FBW) flight control computer (FCC) for both the Eagle II and Super Hornet. This technology ...

the flight data recorder recovered from the crashed F-16 showed that its pitch rate gyroscopes had given erroneous inputs to the flight control computer.

Engineer took 90 minutes to restart computer that caused bank holiday flight chaos, ‘damning’ report finds Investigation launched into air-traffic control meltdown that saw 2,000 flights cancelled ...