In this explanation video you'll learn how an aircraft is controlled with the help of great graphics, you'll understand the role of the control surfaces, primary and secondary. This is a really ...

Who hasn't peeked into the cockpit of a plane when boarding a flight? The dashboard with hundreds of buttons, levers and knobs controlling things the average traveler can't begin to understand is a ...

More details are emerging about yesterday’s in-flight freakout. Clayton Osbon, the flight captain whose erratic behavior forced an emergency landing in Texas, began “speaking incoherently” in the ...

Why can't aircraft controls be wholly automated so as to reduce, or completely do away with the hundreds of buttons in the cockpit? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, ...

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.