ARLINGTON, Va. – Electric aircraft designers at Aurora Flight Sciences Corp. in Manassas, Va. are moving forward with a project to push the bounds of future electric aircraft by eliminating control ...

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

Learning to taxi an aircraft, particularly tricycle-gear models, is a fundamental challenge requiring precise rudder and throttle control, slow speeds, and avoiding the use of the yoke for steering.

DARPA has awarded Aurora Flight Sciences a phase 2 contract for its CRANE (Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors) program, following wind tunnel testing of a small-scale X-plane that ...

A research team has demonstrated the use of a novel control method in an aircraft with no tail. The technology allows an aircraft to be as smooth and sleek as possible, making it safer to fly in ...

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 ...