“We are leveraging decades of expertise and advanced technologies to architect a flight control system that will enable the future of flight,” said Ehtisham Siddiqui, vice president and general ...

EUROCOPTER demonstrated a fiber optic primary flight control system on the EC 135 helicopter in Munich, Germany Jan. 28. The "fly by light" system is a "quantum leap over conventional mechanical ...

DAVIDSON, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW) today announced that it has successfully delivered the primary flight control actuators and control electronics to Eviation ...

Airbus Helicopters' new FlightLab flying laboratory is already yielding results, successfully testing a fly-by-wire system for Airbus’ CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL prototype that reduces the primary ...

Transport Canada (TC) has followed up on a 2022 emergency airworthiness directive (EAD) for Airbus A220 operators by mandating the installation of new primary flight control computer (PFCC) software.

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 ...

MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE - With a wingspan of about 132 feet, it requires a team effort to keep the 908th Airlift Wing’s fleet of C-130H Hercules in excellent working condition. The 908th AW’s ...

Responsible for overseeing all aspects of flight operations onboard an aircraft carrier, the Air Boss –along with their assistant, the so-called ‘miniboss’– act as something of a nerve center. They ...