Diving deeper into the last true 'pilot's fighter jet' of naval aviation.

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 ...

A NASA flight research project, designed to test a derivative of the Wright Brothers’ concept of wing-warping to control aircraft turns, indicates the concept works, even at supersonic speeds. This ...

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 ...