SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In February, Reliable Robotics completed a series of remotely operated test flights directed by a pilot stationed in its Mountain View headquarters over fifty miles ...

Aircraft Environmental Control Systems (ECS) are integral to modern aviation, ensuring passenger comfort and maintaining the operational integrity of avionics and other on-board equipment. These ...

A future MQ-25A Stingray ground control station will likely look more like a radar operator's station in an E-2 Hawkeye than the cockpit of a fighter or even a remotely piloted (RPV) aircraft ...

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 ...

The US Navy recently landed a strike fighter on the deck of an aircraft carrier without the pilot inside actually doing anything. Instead, an officer aboard the carrier guided the aircraft down by ...

The proverbial pucker factor would have been higher had the pilots of the stricken DHL Airbus 300 been aware of the grim findings of a 1997 NASA technical paper: "Manual throttles-only control is ...

In aircraft research, the reduction of the structural mass is a core aspect since it helps in decreasing the fuel consumption and thus the CO2 emission. The structure itself is designed to withstand ...

eVTOL (Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing) craft are some of the more exciting air vehicles being developed lately. They aim to combine the maneuverability and landing benefits of helicopters with ...

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Simplifying flight—to make it as easy as getting into a car with automatic transmission—has long eluded the aerospace engineers creating new aircraft. While we’ve relied on flight controls such as ...