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.

The aircraft is meant to develop and mature rotor blown wing design, which can now be applied to larger aircraft for unmanned aerial logistics and even tactical ISR missions. Sikorsky announced it has ...

The US Air Force (USAF) is demonstrating significant advancements in the ability of its existing fighter aircraft to integrate with and control new pilotless combat jets. During recent training ...

Emerging aviation technologies developer Aurora Flight Sciences is progressing with assembly of its prototype X-65 active flow control demonstrator. Aurora on 20 November shared an image of the X-65 ...

Skyryse has begun for-credit certification flight testing of the Skyryse One, a new-production Robinson R66 light helicopter equipped with SkyOS, a fly-by-wire flight control system with a joystick ...

General Atomics and Anduril are simultaneously testing their respective YFQ-42 and YFQ-44 aerial drones. Only one of the two will ultimately win the Air Force’s “Collaborative Combat Aircraft” ...

Fault injection is usually discussed in the context of security, where adversaries deliberately induce faults to bypass protections or extract sensitive information. In safety engineering, by contrast ...