Skyryse raises $300M+ for its AI flight control system

Skyryse Inc., the developer of a flight control system with artificial intelligence features, today announced that it has closed a funding round worth more than $300 million. The Series C deal was led ...

The last US Navy fighter with manual controls

Diving deeper into the last true 'pilot's fighter jet' of naval aviation.
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Flight Control Computer, Saturn V

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is an unflown example of the ...
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When solar radiation grounds planes

In late November, airlines around the world were told to urgently ground planes within their Airbus A320 fleets. Investigators had found that intense bursts of solar radiation could corrupt data ...
IEEE

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Driven Parameter Tuning for Adaptive Control Systems in Hypersonic Flight Vehicle

Abstract: Hypersonic flight vehicle faces critical challenges of control from highly nonlinear and time-varying uncertainties, which impose stringent requirements for real-time parameter adaptation ...
tbsnews

What is the Airbus ‘Icarus Bug’ and how are airlines fixing it?

The "Icarus Bug" is the name given to a vulnerability found in several Airbus A320-family aircraft. It involves a rare failure in a flight-control computer that can occur when high-energy radiation ...
The Hill

Holiday flights face disruptions as Airbus issues urgent update to thousands of planes

The major aerospace company says the issue was traced back to a malfunction in a flight-control computer in its A320 Family aircraft, indicating that “intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical ...
KTVU

Airbus orders A320 fixes following flight-control incident

Airbus ordered fixes on a large number of A320-family aircraft after discovering that intense solar radiation can corrupt data essential to flight-control systems. The recall may cause travel ...
AeroTime

EASA issues emergency directive after Airbus flags A320 flight-control fault

European regulators have ordered airlines to take immediate action on Airbus A320 Family aircraft after an investigation linked a recent uncommanded pitch-down event to a potential fault in a key ...
Flightglobal

A320 grounding linked to software update designed to protect against in-flight loss of control

Investigations into an October in-flight upset involving a JetBlue Airways Airbus A320 have yet to reach any firm conclusions, but suspicions of a solar particle strike have proven sufficient to order ...
U.S. News & World Report

Airbus Issues Major A320 Recall, Threatening Global Flight Disruption

PARIS (Reuters) -Europe's Airbus said on Friday it was ordering immediate repairs to 6,000 of its widely used A320 family of jets in a sweeping recall affecting more than half the global fleet, ...
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JetBlue Flight Plunge Triggers Airbus A320 Emergency Airworthiness Directive and Massive Global Grounding

EASA has issued an Airbus A320 emergency airworthiness directive after a JetBlue A320 suffered an uncommanded altitude drop and diverted to Tampa last month. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency ...