NASA gearing up for 'refuse-to-crash' flight-tests

NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., is gearing up to begin flight-tests next summer using a small scaled model of an airliner to evaluate "refuse-to-crash" technology. With more and more aircraft moving to digital controls and fly-by-wire technology, NASA aviation safety engineers...

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