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.

Lockheed Martin's famous-yet-secret Skunk Works is conducting live flight tests of its Smart Adaptive Flight Control Environment (SAFE) autonomous AI system on the X-62A. The system can be ...

How NASA's F-15 ACTIVE program tested thrust vectoring and adaptive controls to improve performance of future ...

Modern aerospace engineering increasingly relies on the seamless integration of advanced performance modelling with state‐of‐the‐art flight control systems. These systems optimise aerodynamic ...

Let’s have a look at the Advanced Controls Evaluator (ACE), based on the Aero Vodochody L-39C, presented at the 11th annual Flight Test Seminar of the International Test Pilots School (ITPS). The ...

In an aviation milestone, Piasecki Aircraft Corporation (PiAC) successfully conducted the first flight of its innovative proof of concept tilt-duct Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System Demonstration ...

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 ...

German start-up ERC System will in 2026 fly the first prototype of a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) uncrewed cargo aircraft it hopes to bring to market in the coming years. Critically, that ...

In early August 2025, Joby Aviation (Santa Cruz, Calif., U.S.) has announced recent business developments, including that it is preparing for final assembly of its first conforming aircraft intended ...

The Bell X-2 Starbuster pushed flight beyond Mach 3 and 126,000 feet, advancing research on extreme speeds and paving the way ...

ESSINGTON, Pa., September 10, 2024 (Newswire.com) – In an aviation milestone, Piasecki Aircraft Corporation (PiAC) successfully conducted the first flight of its innovative proof of concept tilt-duct ...