Concorde flight engineer Warren Hazelby gets chills recalling his first supersonic flight from London to New York in 2002. Hazelby remembers stepping onto the flight deck and taking it all in. The ...

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.

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 flight deck has undergone a dramatic evolution—from analog instruments and manual control inputs to integrated, data-rich environments designed to support pilot decision-making. Today’s cockpits ...

Regularly scheduled, commercial supersonic flight became a reality half a century ago with Concorde, but the high costs associated with supersonic aircraft technology doomed the project to commercial ...

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 ...

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 ...