Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. More details are emerging about yesterday’s in-flight freakout. Clayton Osbon, the flight captain whose ...

The Airbus A380 and the Boeing 747 represent two of the most iconic widebody aircraft ever produced, each embodying distinct engineering philosophies that are evident starting in the cockpit. While ...

How pilots handle emergencies in the most critical phase of flight.

Tv in the Cockpit: The Control of Landing Aircraft Now flying B-707’s on round-the-world flights to the Far East, MARIUS LODEESEN learned to fly with the U.S. Navy at Pensacola, Florida, after getting ...

A new retrospective on the history of fighter jet cockpit controls moves through 65 years of analog, and later digital, evolution. Thanks to the computer processor and display technologies, pilots can ...

American F-16 Fighting Falcons are getting a new cockpit management unit (CMU) from Avalex as part of the U.S. Air Force’s mobile user objective system (MUOS) program to upgrade the so-called Viper.

Boeing Co. has been forced to ground its 737 MAX aircraft after two of the jetliners were recently involved in deadly crashes in Indonesia and in Ethiopia. Much of the investigative focus has been on ...

Heavier-than-air flight control systems have evolved from basic weight shifting to complex fly-by-wire, driven by the need to manage faster, heavier aircraft and reduce pilot workload through ...