While the position isn't quite as common as it used to be, a professional flight engineer is the third member of the flight crew of large commercial aircraft. In a three-member crew, the pilot is ...

Christina Harvey, a University of California, Davis, researcher studying how bird flight can be used to improve aircraft design, has been awarded a 2023 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering ...

Today, aircraft typically only require two flight crew: the pilot and the co-pilot. But this was not always the case. Before the development of more sophisticated microprocessors and computers, ...

After earning a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in Nepal, Sameer Pokhrel came to the United States to further his education. From an early age, he had a lifelong fascination with aviation.

Sai Ravuru was first inspired to pursue a career in aviation by the film Star Wars, when he watched the spaceships take off and land automatically. He is the first ever flight operations performance ...

An integrated approach of digital engineering and flight test is paramount to rapid success as we move forward into the emerging era of hypersonic flight. While digital engineering techniques and ...

Welcome to The Work Day, a series that charts a single day in various women’s working lives — from gallery owners to stay-at-home parents to chief executives. In this installment, we hear from Emma ...

Passionate about aircraft and flight, doctoral candidate Ahmed Elgohary chose the University of Cincinnati to further his education in aerospace engineering. Part of the Modeling, Dynamics, and ...

Join the Flight Control Laws Team based in Bristol as an Advanced Flight Control Laws Engineer and help us to achieve our mission of pioneering electric aviation. The Flight Control Laws team are a ...

The TWA terminal was the architectural high point at Kennedy airport — and dream city for young aircrew. Courtesy Allwaysny At last, I looked like the airline pilot I had long planned to be, striding ...