Lux Planes on MSN

What you can actually do with the VelocityOne flight controls

The Turtle Beach VelocityOne is one of the most talked-about flight sim controllers, and in this review we find out why. From ...
KTVU FOX 2

Airbus orders A320 fixes following flight-control incident

Airbus issued an urgent directive on a “significant number" of A320 family aircraft, potentially disrupting travel. Here’s what we know.
New Atlas

Honeywell to provide flight controls for Lilium's 7-seat air taxi

Following the reveal of its impressive 7-seat eVTOL jet back in March, Lilium has announced that the flight control systems and avionics for its futuristic air taxi will be provided by aerospace firm ...
PennyGem on MSN

Largest Airbus recall strands travelers as solar flares corrupt flight controls on 6,000 A320s

A rare software vulnerability triggered by intense solar radiation has forced Airbus to ground approximately 6,000 A320 ...
Hackaday

Helicopter flight controls

Inverted Quadcopter? That generally means a crash is soon to follow. Not so for a new crop of quadcopter fliers. These new quadcopters are capable of sustained inverted flight. We’ve seen inverted ...
USA Today

Ask the Captain: What does 'fly by wire' mean?

Answer: In a fly-by-wire aircraft, the pilot inputs commands via a sidestick or yoke to a computer. The computer then directs the hydraulic or electric actuator to deflect a flight control surface.
TechCrunch

Honeycomb’s yoke and throttle let you take your flight sim experience to the next level

When Microsoft, after a decade-long hiatus, relaunched its now 40-year-old Flight Simulator series in 2020, it reignited interest in a genre that had long been a mainstay of PC gaming. It’s one thing ...
Aviation Week

Advanced Flight Controls Anchor Dassault Falcon 8X Safety, Efficiency

Dassault’s Falcon business jets have long been praised for their fuel efficiency and flying qualities, and its current flagship Falcon 8X is no exception. Compared to the Gulfstream GVII-G500 that I ...
autoevolution

Airbus A320 Recalled Over Flight Control Software Concern, More Than 6,000 Jets Affected

Most Airbus A320 aircraft will have their ELACs reverted to an earlier software version, while certain A320neo aircraft may also get hardware changes ...
usace.army.mil

Aerospace research engineers write flight control textbook

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- Research engineers from the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center and Universities Space Research Association have written a textbook to ...
Flightglobal

Flight-control issue prompts NASA and Lockheed to move X-59 back inside for troubleshooting

NASA and partner Lockheed Martin are evaluating a newly discovered flight-control problem with the agency’s X-59 supersonic demonstrator jet, and have moved the aircraft back inside for evaluation.
VietNamNet

Long Thanh’s flight control team passes final drills before opening

Vietnam’s Civil Aviation Authority has confirmed that air traffic controllers at Long Thanh International Airport are fully ...