Rotorcraft
ACE Aero Modding Black Hawks with Skyryse Controls
The upgrade makes the helicopter much simpler to fly
Skyryse One modified helicopter
The Skyryse modification replaces all of the helicopter's mechanical flight controls with a single-stick fly-by-wire system that can also be operated via two touchscreen cockpit displays.

ACE Aeronautics plans to equip Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters with Skyryse’s SkyOS software and digital flight controls under a strategic partnership signed between the two companies. Skyryse’s system removes the mechanical helicopter cyclic, collective, and pedal flight controls and avionics and replaces them with a single fly-by-wire control stick and two touchscreen cockpit displays.

Pilots can control the Skyryse-modified helicopter via the displays or using the control stick, with full envelope protection and simplified flight control that prevents pilots from exceeding the helicopter’s limitations. At the same time, the helicopter’s full capabilities are available.