Seeing airplanes fly in formation is an exciting experience at something like an air show, where demonstrations of a pilot’s skill and aircraft technology are on full display. But there are other ...

I don't have a lot of rules, but here's a new one: when someone offers you the chance to take part in a formation flight, jump at the opportunity. For me, that chance came a couple of weeks ago when ...

A pilot died in a formation flight accident, highlighting the risks of this type of flying without proper training. Formation flight requires extensive training from a skilled instructor, covering pre ...

An experimental Airbus concept shows airplanes flying in formation to save fuel. This concept carefully capitalizes on wake turbulence, which engineers have fought against for more than a century.

As we enter the summer fun flying season, there might be a time when someone suggests you try some spur-of-the-moment formation flying. On a VFR trip, flying within loose sight range of a friend or ...

Airbus next year will begin testing a project it calls Fello'fly, which is designed to facilitate the introduction of formation flying on transatlantic routes as soon as 2025. The goal of the project ...

“Our job is to ensure our two GRAIL spacecraft are flying a very, very accurate trail formation in lunar orbit,” said David Lehman, GRAIL project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Four individual satellites of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) recently set a ...

PARIS — Swedish Space Corp. authorities are reporting a near-100 percent success for their two-satellite Prisma mission so far, including the demonstration of a new satellite thruster system that its ...

Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) announced the successful launch of three formation-flying microsatellites built by SFL under contract to Deep Space Industries for HawkEye 360 Inc. The microsatellites ...

Science Progress (1933-) Vol. 103, No. 1, 2020 Optimal cooperative control for formation flying spacecraft with collision avoidance This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. This ...