BOEING Commercial Airplane has used test-based methods to improve the accuracy of an acoustic aircraft cabin model that can save engineering time by predicting acoustic properties of new cabin ...

May 17 (UPI) --NASA on Friday announced it has created a new digital modeling tool for engineers to simulate conceptual aircraft designs. The new Aviary tool allows researchers to digitally test how ...

Aircraft fuel consumption and performance modelling are central to addressing the dual imperatives of economic efficiency and environmental sustainability in modern aviation. This field integrates ...

The Smart Switch for Model Aircraft Lights is a simple yet efficient ambient light sensing electronic switch designed to be user programmable over a wide range from full sunlight to total darkness ...

Ribbons of tickets trade hands for a drone raffle. It's DC Drone Day on a field in the part of western Maryland where suburbs give way to parks, rolling hills and farmland. The field is a weekend ...

In a stunning David versus Goliath case, John A. Taylor, a model aircraft enthusiast and insurance lawyer, beat the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Justice in a case challenging the ...

The FAA and DOT have finalized their rules for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS, or drones), and clarified rules for model aircraft. This is the end of a long process the FAA undertook last year ...

Researchers at Purdue University have created a turbulence model for vortex collisions that could allow aircraft engineers and designers to build aircraft more capable of handling extreme scenarios.

WASHINGTON -- Bell Helicopter is taking its legacy developing tiltrotor technology into the unmanned world with a new aircraft it is calling the V-247 "Vigilant." The company unveiled a model of the ...

We’ve often heard the expression “that won’t fly,” but an MIT-based experimental model literally contradicts that statement for one type of flight propulsion. Like a science-fiction story come true, ...