Lockheed Martin's advanced development arm Skunk Works and the U.S. Air Force have successfully tested technology that allows fighter pilots to control a drone while in flight. During a recent flight ...

American F-16 Fighting Falcons are getting a new cockpit management unit (CMU) from Avalex as part of the U.S. Air Force’s mobile user objective system (MUOS) program to upgrade the so-called Viper.

You might be surprised to see large passenger airliners with cockpit windows that open. Here's why some cockpit windows open, ...

Who hasn't peeked into the cockpit of a plane when boarding a flight? The dashboard with hundreds of buttons, levers and knobs controlling things the average traveler can't begin to understand is a ...

Why can't aircraft controls be wholly automated so as to reduce, or completely do away with the hundreds of buttons in the cockpit? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, ...

A new retrospective on the history of fighter jet cockpit controls moves through 65 years of analog, and later digital, evolution. Thanks to the computer processor and display technologies, pilots can ...