The last US-built commercial airplane with a flight engineer was a 747-200, although a unique aircraft with a flight engineer ...

A flight engineer (FE) is a member of the flight crew who is responsible for monitoring and operating the aircraft's complex systems. Their role is to monitor and manage the aircraft's engines and ...

As an aeronautics grad student at MIT in the 2010s, Brian Yutko was obsessed. He’d work deep into the night mining “black box” data and destination codes buried in antiquated computer languages like ...

The Boeing 777X is a generational leap in long-haul aircraft design that blends proven engineering with cutting-edge avionics ...

Today, aircraft typically only require two flight crew: the pilot and the co-pilot. But this was not always the case. Before the development of more sophisticated microprocessors and computers, ...