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Aircraft landing gear systems represent a critical component in ensuring the safety and operational reliability of modern aircraft. Their dynamics involve complex interactions between structural, ...

The test is part of the Adaptive Airborne Enterprise concept development, which also demonstrated the Reaper’s capability to release an Altius 600 sUAS from a launch pod. The U.S. Air Force 27th ...

DARPA's X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary Aurora’s Bridgeport, West Virginia facility. The fuselage is taking shape ...

The Navy tested command and control of an unmanned aircraft using its Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control Station (UMCS) for the first time this week in a demo using the General Atomics ...

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 ...

DARPA has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale aircraft called the X-65. It will test a new technology that replaces moving control surfaces with Active Flow Control (AFC ...