The fundamentals of flight have remained the same since the Wright brothers first left the ground, but nearly everything else has changed. Design standards have shifted from simple airframes to ...

Advanced flight-control developer Skyryse is forging ahead with plans to bring to market by 2025 a Robinson Helicopter R66 light-single adapted with an innovative fly-by-wire system. Skyryse plans to ...

Skyryse achieved a "unicorn" valuation over $1 billion after securing $300 million in Series C funding, becoming the first founder-led, privately held company offering dual-use civil and defense ...

The first flight-control systems used levers, pulleys and cables to enable pilots to adjust movable aerodynamic surfaces. These were replaced by hydraulic systems that enabled pilots to control wing ...

Flying is dangerous, but modern software and hardware can take a basic technology that hasn't changed in 100 years and make it safe. A new company called Airhart Aeronautics in Long Beach, California, ...

Sikorsky successfully flew a Schweizer 333 helicopter equipped with a fly-by-wire system that will be incorporated into the X2 Technology demonstrator rotorcraft. Sikorsky called the flight a key ...

NBAA-BACE debutant Skyryse says its retrofittable fly-by-wire system can make almost any GA aircraft safer to fly by reducing cognitive overload. Technology start-up Skyryse is making its NBAA-BACE ...

Bell has unveiled a fly-by-wire control system-equipped 429 twin-engine light helicopter as the company’s new flying testbed. The company’s Aircraft Laboratory for Future Autonomy (ALFA) will be used ...

In aviation the term fly-by-wire means that the control surfaces of an aircraft are operated by actuators rather than via cables and rods, with electrical signals transmitting information from the ...