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The article discusses issues associated with highest performing business jets and how new aircrafts fly efficiently at 490 to 500 KTAS and soar into the mid- to upper forties. Topics discussed include large-scale travel time savings associated with business aircrafts; issues associated with aircraft certification regulations dealing with pressurization, ventilation and oxygen systems and some of the most challenging tests for aircraft with conventional flight controls.

The article discusses issues associated with damage in aircrafts due to turbulence. Topics discussed include the report "Turbulence Related Accidents & Incidents" by senior meteorologist Donald Eick in the Office of Aviation Safety of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), excessive stress due to flight control system failures and pilot-induced maneuvers and certification criteria for transport aircraft dealing with structural integrity.

When we read the words "artificial intelligence" (AI) we usually picture robots, machines, and circuit boards, not people. "When the field of AI was born in the 1950s, a few other scientists flipped the AI idea around", said TRI's mobility and advanced technology communications manager Nathan Kokes. [Extracted from the article]

The article evaluates the InSight flight deck system from Universal Avionics.

The article offers information on the risk reduction flight tests conducted by the U.S. Navy for its Northrop Grumman E-20 Advanced Hawkeye early warning aircraft. Topics discussed include views of U.S. Navy Commander Andrew Ballinger on E-20 Aerial Refueling Program, efforts made by security company Northrop Grumman for reducing crew fatigue and enhancing refueling operations for E-20 Advanced Hawkeye, and modifications of the flight-control software by Northrop Grumman.

The article focuses on the requests for proposals (RFP) issued by the aircraft maker Boeing for the Boeing 777X airplane's new systems and equipment. It mentions that RFPs are focused on the systems and actuation of the moving surfaces on the aircraft's composite wing and development of GE9X engine for the 777X by the General Electric. It informs that integrated flight-control electronics (IFCE) and air-data function will be developed by aerospace firm BAE Systems.

The article reports that Gulfstream and BAE Systems set out to reintroduce the intuitiveness of mechanically coupled flight controls by integrating electronically coupled sidesticks on the G500 and G600 business jets. It mentions business jets will be the first commercial FBW aircraft with active sidesticks in service with the certification of the Irkut MC-21 single-aisle jet. It presents views of Fred George, aircraft evaluation editor of Aviation Week, on the same.

The article discusses initiatives related to sustainability in the aviation industry. Topics include that Shell Aviation has signed an agreement to supply DHL Express with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport; and that British Airways (BA) has partnered with ZeroAvia to develop hydrogen powered aircraft.

The article informs that testing of an adaptive flight controller that could enable pilots to save a damaged or out-of-control aircraft is underway. It is noted that the first flight of the L1 adaptive control law on Calspan's variable stability inflight simulator test aircraft (VISTA) F-16 occurred on August 26, 2016. It is stated that advanced testing of the L1 occurred due to increase in loss-of-control inflight LOC-I) air transport accidents

This article reports that as of August 22, 2016, the U.S. Air Force is more than midway through the first phase of flight tests of the Automatic Integrated Collision Avoidance System (Auto ICAS), a combat flight safety system designed to prevent both air-to-air and air-to-ground collisions. Mentioned are the developers of Auto ICAS, including the aerospace company Lockheed Martin, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The article discusses a flight-control upgrade developed for the Chinook heavy-lift helicopter from Boeing. Topics covered include the safety and performance benefits of fly-by-wire (FBW), the changes made by the Active Parallel Actuator Subsystem (APAS) in the Chinook, and the cost of FBW capabilities being made lower through APAS.

The article offers aviation industry news briefs as of April-May 2015. Topics discussed include launch of Irkut MS-21 airliner with active side-sticks as part of its fly-by-wire flight control system; analysis of air-breathing rocket concept by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL); and plans of aircraft engineer Rob Coatney to set a record for unmanned aircraft by flying his Gooney Bird UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) by exceeding more than 100 hours flight.

The article offers information on the Magic Carpet software, a flight-control and guidance software for carrier landings. Topics discussed include testing of the software made at the Boeing F/A-18E/F aircraft at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River, Maryland, by the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command, testing of the software to be made at an aircraft carrier off the U.S. East Coast and views of Lieutenant Brent Robinson, test pilot of squadron VX-23 at Patuxent River, on the software.

The article reports that UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) is equipping Russia's Irkut MS-21 narrowbody airliner with active side-sticks as part of its fly-by-wire flight-control system.