Updates include a new airframe, digital automatic flight control system, enhanced cargo handling equipment and a modernised communication suite.

Paired with a digital flight control system, this configuration could contribute to both high agility and overall flight stability. The growing number of sightings and leaked imagery of China’s ...

The integration of such flight surfaces would require a digital flight control system with real-time correction — essentially, fly-by-wire with artificial stability management. China has already ...

As more drones begin flying, a traffic management system developed at NASA aims to keep the airspace safe. On Thanksgiving ...

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 ...

New system lets drones autonomously perform complex aerobatics, safely outmaneuvering humans in both indoor and outdoor ...

A team of cyber-systems researchers, engineers, optical specialists and roboticists at Zhejiang University, in China, has developed a navigation system for quadcopter drones that gives them the ...

Meanwhile, National Transportation Safety Board investigators have begun evaluating the helicopter’s flight control system at a "secure location," according to the safety agency. Parts that have ...

Could we be on the verge of an era where fighter jets take flight without pilots—and are controlled by artificial ...

The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) achieved a first-of-its-kind milestone during the Ramstein Flag Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) exercise. In what is ...

The solution will improve operational efficiency and provide compliance with emerging global aeronautics distress and safety ...

It has been designated to meet the needs of any size organization, from one that requires an entry-level, two-reader system to a large corporation with numerous facilities and thousands of card ...