So, the ailerons do not turn the airplane, they roll the airplane. The rudders do not turn the airplane, they yaw the airplane. It is the elevator back pressure that “moves” the nose around ...

Largely forgotten, the X-44 MANTA (Multi-Axis No-Tail Aircraft) was an ambitious concept in the late 1990s by Lockheed Martin ...

The issue affects flight control remote modules (FCRMs) found in elevator, rudder, aileron and spoiler ... as little as 24 days from the May 7 effective date for a certain subset of aircraft.

“When I was aboard we had 5000 sailors and we had 110 aircraft” says Couch. “We took care of all the structures of the aircraft, ailerons, speed brakes, flaps, nose gear, steering hydraulics.