New pilots of tricycle-gear aircraft must learn to steer using rudder pedals and throttle, not the yoke, while maintaining a slow, controlled taxi speed to stay on the centerline. Achieving proper ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The first unmanned aircraft control station has been fitted in a US Navy (USN) aircraft carrier – a major milestone in the service’s journey to integrate uncrewed jets into the carrier air wing. The ...