The flight computer is also a very capable data logger, so every launch attempt, failed or successful, became a learning opportunity. Check out the second video after the break for a fascinating ...

Experts: Glitch highlights need for new air traffic control systems. Nov. 19, 2009— -- A Federal Aviation Administration computer outage early Thursday morning caused nearly 2,000 more flight ...

The incident on board Flight QF 72 resulted in 115 injuries, 12 of them serious, ... What exactly happened on the circuit boards of aircraft computer system remains unclear.

This flight controller is also very happy flying larger aircraft where the difference is even less; a 7kg AUW might use 1,400 W to hover! That is very true, and we faced the same recently but ...

ON Semiconductor and Airbus collaborate on ASIC for A350 XWB Flight Control Computer. 110 nm process technology platform enables high reliability sol ...

Investigators have concluded that cracked solder joints on a circuit board were the main contributor to the fatal crash of Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 on 28 December 2014.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Jan. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Avilution, LLC, an avionics software company headquartered at the Huntsville International Airport, has completed the first successful flight of an ...

A near crash during a flight-simulator session in June led to a redesign of the Boeing 737 Max's flight-computer architecture, according to a new Bloomberg report.; That redesign is in addition to ...

But after the fourth time an alarm went off during the flight, a crew member apparently went outside of handbook recommendations and removed a circuit breaker to try to reset the system, he said.