“You don’t know how the plane is set up when it’s on autopilot.” he said, “because those aircraft are very complex and they have, usually, auto throttles and they have auto trim, and they have aileron ...

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 ...

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A plane crashed shortly after 1 p.m. Friday at Goheen Field, a privately owned airport north of Battle Ground. One person was killed in the crash. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files) A plane that ...

COME IN AND SKY 5 OVER AN INCIDENT AT NORWOOD AIRPORT THIS AFTERNOON. WE BROUGHT YOU THIS FIRST AT NOON, A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE TOWN SAYS THE INCIDENT HAPPENED DURING A FREE PROMOTIONAL FLIGHT FOR A ...

DARPA wants to develop and fly a demonstrator aircraft that does not use external mechanical flight controls. Aurora plans to fly an X-Plane in 2025. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — This is terror: 20,000 feet in the air, pilot unconscious, the cold, vast Pacific Ocean dead ahead and nowhere to turn for help except to the increasingly faint, ...

Water leaked from plane bathrooms meant Delta pilots lost their autopilot systems, the NTSB found. Flooding from two bathrooms caused ice to form around the plane controls, the investigation found.