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 ...

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.

A team of 10 Penn State aerospace engineering undergraduates earned third place and a $750 award in the Vertical Flight ...

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 ...

A recently graduated University of Texas at Arlington student is the first person to successfully flight test an unmanned aerial vehicle that uses moving weights in its wings instead of traditional ...

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, ...

Inspired by nocturnal animals that use whiskers to navigate, this study presents a 3-gram tactile sensor enabling tiny drones to detect obstacles by touch, supporting onboard tactile sensing for ...

Michimasa Fujino, chief executive of Honda Aircraft Co., clambers up a steep ladder to a grated-metal platform to check on his baby. At eye level he peers inside the machinery where Honda's new ...

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 ...

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 ...