The Last Plane In America With An Analog Cockpit

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 ...
Flying

Best Controls for a Flight Simulator

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The Last Plane In America Without Fly-By-Wire Controls

The fundamentals of flight have remained the same since the Wright brothers first left the ground, but nearly everything else has changed. Design standards have shifted from simple airframes to ...
Aviation Week

Flight Control System Designs Get Smaller, More Powerful

Emerging electromechanical actuation technologies for flight control systems will support more electric architecture. Credit: Collins Aerospace With a new age of electrically driven advanced air ...
NPR

An older Boeing plane found with missing panel after landing in Oregon

PORTLAND, Ore. — A post-flight inspection revealed a missing panel on an older Boeing 737-800 that had just arrived at its destination in southern Oregon on Friday after flying from San Francisco, ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Armless pilot gives students a look at first foot-controlled plane: ‘Disability does not mean inability’

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Airlines race to fix Airbus planes after warning solar radiation could cause pilots to lose control

Airlines around the world are racing to avoid widespread cancellations by fixing thousands of Airbus aircraft that need immediate maintenance to protect from a problem that injured passengers and ...