A flight computer is a form of slide rule used in aviation and one of a very few analog computers in widespread use in the 21st century. Sometimes it...

A flight control computer (FCC) is a primary component of the avionics system found in fly-by-wire aircraft. It is a specialized computer system that...

in use in some specific applications, such as aircraft flight simulators, the flight computer in aircraft, and for teaching control systems in universities...

software design limitation of the Airbus A330's fly-by-wire flight control primary computer (FCPC). The aircraft involved was an Airbus A330-303 twin turbofan...

program however, the flight was controlled by the computer. The astronauts flew manually briefly during lunar landings. Each Moon flight carried two AGCs...

A flight control mode or flight control law is a computer software algorithm that transforms the movement of the yoke or joystick, made by an aircraft...

A flight management system (FMS) is a fundamental component of a modern airliner's avionics. An FMS is a specialized computer system that automates a...

IFCS learns flight characteristics in real time through the aircraft’s sensors and from error corrections from the primary flight computer, and then uses...

basic flight instruments were behaving erratically, and reported receiving contradictory serial emergency messages from the flight management computer, including...

TAM Airlines Flight 3054 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by TAM Airlines from Porto Alegre to São Paulo, Brazil. On the evening...

The E6-B flight computer is a form of circular slide rule used in aviation. It is an instance of an analog calculating device still being used in the...

computers determine how to move the actuators at each control surface to provide the ordered response. Implementations either use mechanical flight control...

electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs, which enable computers to perform a wide range of tasks. The term computer system...

increased range. A flight computer (Autonetics D37D) with larger disk memory and enhanced capability. A Honeywell HDC-701 flight computer which employed non-destructive...

Minuteman III flight computer was initially supplied with the LGM-30G missile, as part of the NS-20 navigation system. The NS-20 D37D flight computer is a miniaturized...

duplicated for redundancy, for a total of four computers. The processor used for its flight computers is the Mongoose-V, a 12 MHz radiation-hardened version...

takeoff from Marabá, the crew entered an incorrect heading into the flight computer, flying deep into a remote area of the Amazon jungle. Attempts to reach...

are read from the chart using the same tools. Alternatively, the E6B flight computer (a circular slide rule with a translucent "wind face" on which to plot...

seconds, causing the flight computer to switch the plane's ailerons to manual control while maintaining control over the other flight systems.[citation needed]...

to make further adjustments in flight. A general aviation (GA) pilot will often make use of either a flight computer – a type of slide rule – or a purpose-designed...

Starship flight test 9 was the ninth flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. Ship 35 and Booster 14-2 flew on this test flight. This flight launched...

Air France Flight 447 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. On 1 June 2009, inconsistent airspeed...

alternates between computers after each flight. The two computers' architecture allowed switching in-flight if the operating computer failed, thus increasing...

informed. Habsheim Aerodrome was too small to be listed in the aircraft's flight computer, thereby requiring a visual approach; both pilots were also unfamiliar...

Laboratory, where she led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program. She later founded two software...

began the development of Flight Simulator in 1977. His company, Sublogic, initially distributed it for various personal computers. In 1981, Artwick was approached...

flight simulator. Visual systems developed in flight simulators were also an important precursor to three dimensional computer graphics and Computer Generated...

(SINS), 1961 D-17B flight computer D-37C flight computer D-37D flight computer Autonetics D200 flight computer Carpenter, Eric and French, Sally. "Huge...

its flight computer does not incorporate the extensive electronic architecture of the A380. The BTV is a subset of the airliner's auto-flight computer, and...

Starship flight test 1 was the maiden flight of the integrated SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on April 20, 2023. The...