In this explanation video you'll learn how an aircraft is controlled with the help of great graphics, you'll understand the role of the control surfaces, primary and secondary. This is a really ...

Imagine looking out the window of an airborne airplane and seeing the wing rippling and twisting. You'll probably have a mini ...

A research team has demonstrated the use of a novel control method in an aircraft with no tail. The technology allows an aircraft to be as smooth and sleek as possible, making it safer to fly in ...

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 ...

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 has awarded Aurora Flight Sciences a phase 2 contract for its CRANE (Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors) program, following wind tunnel testing of a small-scale X-plane that ...

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 ...