1 Auto-pilot mode shuts down, but someone can manually trim the plane if the RAT is activated, providing enough power to allow basic flight controls to function. 2 With basic flight controls ...

But nature has other ideas. Birds achieve flight control through complex, coordinated movements where different body parts can affect multiple degrees of freedom simultaneously. Now, researchers ...

It's just a flight-control system that allows a pilot to fly an airplane without continuous hands-on control. Basically, it lets a pilot fly from New York to Los Angeles without white-knuckling ...