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This experimental aircraft could rewrite the rules of flight

The latest generation of experimental aircraft is no longer chasing raw speed alone, it is trying to change how the air ...
New Atlas

DARPA okays construction of X-65 plane with air jet flight controls

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 ...
Flightglobal

US Navy completes first test flight using carrier-based uncrewed control station

The US Navy (USN) has completed its first test flight using an uncrewed aircraft control station that will be installed on the service’s fleet of aircraft carriers. In a demonstration event on 7 ...
Aviation Today

BAE Systems to upgrade flight control computers for F-15EX and F/A-18E/F fighters – Press Release, Aug 20

BAE Systems has been selected by Boeing to upgrade the fly-by-wire (FBW) flight control computers (FCC) for the F-15EX Eagle II and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft. The FCCs feature common ...
New Atlas

Bizarre flapless X-65 diamond-wing aircraft comes together

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 ...
KTVU

Airbus orders A320 fixes following flight-control incident

Airbus ordered fixes on a large number of A320-family aircraft after discovering that intense solar radiation can corrupt data essential to flight-control systems. The recall may cause travel ...