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Flying in first person: New RC aircraft brings first-person cockpit views to pilots

Flywing built the X-Wing Fighter as a VTOL aircraft centered on first-person flight. A forward-facing camera streams live ...
New Atlas

Bizarre flapless X-65 diamond-wing aircraft comes together

DARPA's X-65, that replaces conventional aircraft flight controls with puffs of air, is coming together at Boeing subsidiary Aurora’s Bridgeport, West Virginia facility. The fuselage is taking shape ...
New Atlas

DARPA okays construction of X-65 plane with air jet flight controls

DARPA has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale aircraft called the X-65. It will test a new technology that replaces moving control surfaces with Active Flow Control (AFC ...
Airways

FAA Finalizes AD to Resolve A350 Flight-Control Hazard

FAA AD eliminates the risk of control-surface malfunction linked to hydraulic fluid contamination in A350neo electronics ...
KTVU

Airbus orders A320 fixes following flight-control incident

Airbus ordered fixes on a large number of A320-family aircraft after discovering that intense solar radiation can corrupt data essential to flight-control systems. The recall may cause travel ...
Flightglobal

US Navy completes first test flight using carrier-based uncrewed control station

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 ...