Uncrewed aircraft combine remote control, onboard computing, navigation and sensors to fly without a pilot physically aboard.

ARLINGTON, Va. – Aerospace designers at Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. in Manassas, Va. are moving forward in flight demonstration for a project to push the bounds of future electric aircraft by ...

This aircraft will have no exterior moving parts. It'll fly instead using Active Flow Control (AFC), using a series of nozzle arrays along the wings connected to a pressurized air system, capable of ...

A recently granted patent (Publication Number: US11940816B2) discloses a control system for aircraft that can be configured between a forward configuration, a hover configuration, and ground ...

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 ...

Simplifying flight—to make it as easy as getting into a car with automatic transmission—has long eluded the aerospace engineers creating new aircraft. While we’ve relied on flight controls such as ...

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) plans to increase spending for its next airborne nuclear command-and-control aircraft, and it most likely will choose used aircraft. USAF currently uses an aging fleet of ...