Elixir Aircraft's Elixir 100HP received EASA certification for its Garmin-equipped glass cockpit, designed for flight training. The aircraft boasts features focused on safety and cost-effectiveness, ...

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told members of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday that he plans to ride in the cockpit of an aircraft operated by artificial intelligence to experience the technology of the ...

Airbus and Boeing aircraft are built from the ground up with different design philosophies that completely change what it's ...

Channel your inner Red Baron, or Snoopy, at the first-even Open Cockpit Day at Valiant Air Command’s Warbird Museum in Titusville. “It’s a unique chance to explore history up close,” said museum ...

From the most iconic airplanes in aviation history to those among the forgotten passenger jets that once graced the skies, there's no denying that aircraft are incredible feats of engineering. These ...

Airplane windows might seem ordinary, but they are as much of an engineering marvel as the rest of a modern aircraft. These windows are made of three layers of material to facilitate the plane's ...

About 15 years ago, Czech aircraft designer Milan Bristela saw a significant jump in the maximum speed at which small planes could travel. “But when I saw the pilots getting out of these aircraft, ...

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Whenever a commercial airplane crashes, investigators’ first priority is to find the “black boxes” – the flight data recorder that captures data from the plane’s control systems and the cockpit voice ...

The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 was the last American-built aircraft to feature an analog cockpit. The aircraft entered commercial service with Swissair in October 1980, and became a mainstay of ...

A two-year study by the US National Transportation Safety Board reveals that a target group of light general aviation aircraft with digital "glass cockpits" had twice the fatal accident rate compared ...