Microchip has combined gate driver boards with its Hybrid Power Drive (HPD) modules to ease the aviation industry’s transition to electric actuation systems. Configured with silicon or silicon carbide ...

Flexible shafts assist aircraft’s flap actuator system. Pilatus, the aircraft manufacturer located in Stans, Switzerland, produces a uniquely versatile, multipurpose aircraft, the PC-12. As a business ...

Liebherr-Aerospace sees electro-mechanical actuators as replacements for servo-control actuators on legacy aircraft, but limited to less critical control surfaces, such as spoilers. Credit: Liebherr ...

Eaton has tested its first electronically synchronised flap drive mechanism for an aircraft. The system, designed and built specifically for the Embraer Phenom 100 very light jet, will reduce aircraft ...

In the last 15 years, high-speed piezo electric actuators have become less expensive to manufacture. Consequently, they find themselves as a favorite design choice for a growing number of applications ...

Pilatus, the aircraft manufacturer located in Stans, Switzerland, produces a uniquely versatile, multipurpose aircraft, the PC-12. As a business aircraft, it offers multiple configurations ranging ...