The Week in Technology, April 27-May 1, 2015

Credit: NASA/Boeing
Active Side-Stick First for Russian Airliner Russia’s Irkut MS-21 narrowbody airliner is to be the first large commercial aircraft with active side-sticks as part of its fly-by-wire flight control system. The active inceptors are being developed by UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS). Active side-sticks...
Graham Warwick

Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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