KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- The Malaysia Airlines CEO couldn't confirm or deny reports Tuesday claiming the flight computer on the missing Boeing 777 was manually reprogrammed to divert the jet from its ...

As glass panels and EFBs become more widely used today, the calculations made by your grandfather on the famed E-6B analog flight computer are now handled with small, handheld electronic flight ...

A near crash in a simulated flight in June using the software fix Boeing designed for the 737 Max led to the extensive delay that has kept the plane grounded for months, according to a new Bloomberg ...

The Perigon computer has been under development for three years and developer Collins Aerospace targets qualification tests in 2022. Collins Aerospace on 20 July unveiled a new flight control and ...

Research test pilots at NASA recently completed a series of tests aimed at reducing fuel consumption in airplanes by fine-tuning the software that controls the fly-by-wire system. The goal of the ...

This video excerpt from NOVA: "Crash of Flight 447" explores the powerful computer system that runs the A330 aircraft, controlling speed, altitude, direction, and more—in fact, every aspect of the ...

Honeywell on June 3 unveiled a compact flight-control computer designed to drive electric actuators and dynamically adjust flight surfaces and motors of urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles. The avionics ...

A cybersecurity consultant told the FBI he hacked into computer systems aboard airliners up to 20 times and managed to control an aircraft engine during a flight, according to federal court documents.