In the early 1990s, NASA began a new project to determine how engines and flight controls could work together to improve airplane performance. The program, called Advanced Controls Technology for ...
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Pentagon-backed X-65 jet with 537 mph top speed moves closer to first flight
Aurora Flight Sciences has taken a major step forward in its experimental aircraft program, ...
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Flight test files: Boeing 727 – The NASA wake vortex trials of 1973
NASA Boeing 727 tests in the 1970s revealed how wake vortices affect smaller aircraft, shaping modern separation rules for ...
Aerodynamic modelling and flight testing remain at the forefront of aircraft design and verification, providing the essential linkage between computational simulations and real-world performance.
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DARPA's X-65 Active Flow Control Demonstrator is Taking Shape
Aurora Flight Sciences and DARPA are continuing the assembly of the X-65 CRANE demonstrator, targeting a first flight by 2027 ...
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Remotely Piloted Aircraft Help FAA Test ACAS X
Testing found that the technology's "behavior and output" change between en route and terminal airspace.
BOSTON & MOJAVE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merlin, the leading developer of safe, autonomous flight technology for fixed-wing aircraft, today announced it successfully began the flight test campaign of ...
As a result, flight testing is vastly sped up because the aircraft can shift to a new iteration without having to land and head back to the hangar. In addition, SAFE uses AI and machine learning to ...
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 ...
The high-speed uncrewed test aircraft performed its first flight at Edwards AFB, just a year after the launch of the development. Hermeus, a U.S. company aiming to develop hypersonic aircraft quickly ...
Honda Aircraft has finished certification flight testing for the Garmin Autoland system it now offers on its HondaJet HA-420 Elite II. The testing was completed as part of the Federal Aviation ...
MARINA – Joby Aviation, on its way to commercial flight of its all-electric, vertical take-off and landing air taxi, is preparing for final assembly of the first of several conforming aircraft ...
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