How NASA's F-15 ACTIVE program tested thrust vectoring and adaptive controls to improve performance of future ...

Aerodynamic modelling and flight testing remain at the forefront of aircraft design and verification, providing the essential linkage between computational simulations and real-world performance.

The US Navy (USN) has completed its first test flight using an uncrewed aircraft control station that will be installed on the service’s fleet of aircraft carriers. In a demonstration event on 7 ...

Modern aerospace engineering increasingly relies on the seamless integration of advanced performance modelling with state‐of‐the‐art flight control systems. These systems optimise aerodynamic ...

In November, Beta Technologies (South Burlington, Vt., U.S.) announced completion of its first Alia conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) aircraft flight, which was also the first electric aircraft ...

The YFQ-42 becomes the first of the U.S. Air Force’s new Collaborative Combat Aircraft to enter flight testing. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has announced on Aug. 27, 2025, that its YFQ-42A ...

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft completed its second test flight on March 20, 2026, lifting off from the dry lakebed ...

MARINA – Joby Aviation, on its way to commercial flight of its all-electric, vertical take-off and landing air taxi, is preparing for final assembly of the first of several conforming aircraft ...

In early August 2025, Joby Aviation (Santa Cruz, Calif., U.S.) has announced recent business developments, including that it is preparing for final assembly of its first conforming aircraft intended ...

Kyle Clark, chief executive of US electric aircraft developer Beta Technologies, is a busy man. The first half of the 2025 was hectic, capped by the debut of Beta’s Alia CX300 in the Paris air show ...

During my almost twenty years at CNET, I handled benchmark testing/methodologies for both Mac and PC systems and, sometime after, integrated testing for micro-mobility (e-bikes, electric scooters and ...