How Auto-GCAS quietly monitors an F-16's flight path and takes control at the last recoverable instant to save pilots who have blacked out.
VectorNASA is building the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at Langley, its first new flight-dynamics wind tunnel in 40 years.
TowerNASA's X-59 aims to replace the sonic boom with a quiet 'thump' and overturn a 50-year U.S. ban on supersonic flight over land.
VectorRadio Hangar explores JetZero, the Blended Wing Body, and the Fifty-Percent Fuel Cut That Wants to Erase the Line Between the Wing and the Fuselage.
VectorHow the Pipistrel Velis Electro became the world's first certified electric airplane - and the battery math behind its 50-minute mission.
VectorThe Rotax 916 iS delivers 160 hp from a turbocharged four-cylinder that runs on car gas and flies with a single power lever.
VectorHow Category III autoland uses triple-redundant autopilots and a radio altimeter to land an airliner in fog the crew cannot see through.
VectorADS-B broadcasts your aircraft's position unencrypted and unauthenticated - here's why that tradeoff powers modern surveillance and exposes you.
VectorJetZero's full-scale blended wing body demonstrator aims to fly by 2027 and cut airliner fuel burn by up to 50 percent.
VectorThe Boeing X-66 is a NASA experimental jet with a long, strut-braced wing designed to cut airliner fuel burn by up to 30%.
VectorHow Stratolaunch's Roc, the world's largest-wingspan aircraft, turns a runway into a spaceport through air-launch.
VectorNASA's X-57 Maxwell never flew, but its 14-motor wing proved distributed electric propulsion and reshaped today's eVTOL and air taxi designs.
VectorRadio Hangar explores Beta Technologies ALIA and the Case for Electric Airplanes That Take Off Like Airplanes.
VectorNASA's X-59 aims to replace the sonic boom with a quiet 'thump,' reopening overland supersonic flight banned since 1973.
VectorWhy battery specific energy - not motors or software - is the physics wall blocking real range for electric aircraft, and when that changes.
VectorBoom Supersonic's XB-1 broke Mach 1 on private funding in early 2024, reigniting the case for commercial supersonic travel after the Concorde's 2003 retirement.
VectorBoom Supersonic is closer than any company since Concorde to reviving commercial supersonic travel, but financing gaps and an aggressive 2029 timeline warrant careful scrutiny.
VectorSpaceX's touchscreen-only Crew Dragon flight deck upends decades of cockpit design philosophy, with certified engineering solutions that directly shape aviation's automated future.
VectorThe Pipistrel Velis Electro became the world's first fully type-certified electric aircraft in June 2020, setting lasting regulatory precedent for electric aviation worldwide.
VectorChina's EHang EH216-S became the world's first type-certificated eVTOL in October 2023 - a fully autonomous, pilotless aircraft already carrying passengers commercially.
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