The small Cessna Caravan accelerates down the runway and climbs into the air, all while the pilot beside me keeps his hands off the controls.

A Boston-based startup is working on an AI system that could make pilotless airplanes a reality.

File photo of a Merlin engine being tested. SpaceX said it suffered an anomaly during qualification testing of an engine recently, but that it would not delay upcoming launches. Credit: SpaceX ...

Testing and validating key system capabilities such as Flight Guidance and Autothrottle significantly progresses Merlin’s supplemental type certificate program and the eventual certification of its ...

Autonomous flight technology start-up Merlin says it has launched flight testing on its proprietary pilot system, using a Boeing KC-135 tanker. The Boston-based company on 16 August said it has ...

BOSTON & MOJAVE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merlin, the leading developer of safe, autonomous flight technology for fixed-wing aircraft, today announced it successfully began the flight test campaign of ...

SpaceX has completed testing of its latest Merlin rocket engine in preparation for a Falcon 1 launch in the first quarter of 2008. The kerosene-fuelled Merlin 1C is an improved, regeneratively cooled ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merlin, the leading developer of assured autonomous flight technology for fixed-wing aircraft, today announced it’s rapidly progressing the flight test campaign of its ...