Aircraft manufacturer Airbus recently faced scrutiny after a software error caused a JetBlue flight to lose altitude and make an emergency landing. Nearly 6,000 ...

In the early days of aviation, pilots or their navigators used a plethora of tools to solve common navigation and piloting problems. There was definitely a need for some kind of computing aid that ...

The SpaceDev Miniature Flight Computer (MFC) is the perfect high performance 300 million instructions per second (MIPS) general-purpose flight computer for a wide variety of space vehicles. It is cost ...

Boeing will once again make its own airplane computers and electronics, bringing the work back inside the company nearly 15 years after it shuttered and outsourced its electronics unit. Boeing will ...

The McDonnell Douglas MD-11's cockpit represented a pivotal moment in aviation history where analog transitioned into digital ...

Aviation systems provider BAE Systems will upgrade flight computers on two prominent Boeing fighter jets: the F-15EX Eagle II and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The UK-based manufacturer on 20 August said it ...

American officials are now saying that the first sharp westward turn taken by missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was programmed into a computer system, most likely by someone in the cockpit, ...