Aviation

FAA proposes air taxi pilot licensing plans, sans actual air taxis

We're still a couple years out from eVTOLs picking you up for that red eye flight, and even that may be pushing it

Offbeat08 Jun 2023 | 7

Boeing discovers Dreamliner defect, delivery delay decided

Better than not delaying it, we suppose

Offbeat07 Jun 2023 | 34

Bookings open for first all-electric flights around Scandinavia … in 2028

You'll need to be fast to score one of 30 tickets for planes that don't go very far

Offbeat02 Jun 2023 | 50

Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight

An aircraft mass properties engineer and an eating disorder therapist weigh in on Air New Zealand's plan

Science31 May 2023 | 122

China's homegrown airliner makes first paid-for flight

Asia in Brief PLUS: Grab founder quits operational role; Meta's fiber-bot crawls to Japan; ChatGPT enhances Taiwan's status

Systems28 May 2023 | 11

Atlassian says 'Don't #@!% the Planet' so it can keep making money

Which when you think about it, is a pretty good reason to build a sustainable business

Devops24 May 2023 | 9

NASA's electric plane tech is coming in for a late, bumpy landing

Internal audit finds cost overruns and delays that mean more sustainable flight is nowhere near a runway

Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week18 May 2023 | 77

Stratolaunch takes hypersonic flight dreams to new heights with mid-air release success

Paul Allen must be smiling up there ahead of test flight in summer

Science17 May 2023 | 9

Irony alert: Major airport to be interrupted for two hours to replace UPS

Three power outages have hit NAIA in the past year. What was that about ramping up tourism?

Offbeat08 May 2023 | 9

Chinese company claims it's built batteries so dense they can power electric airplanes

But Dr Rachid Yazami, one of the key minds behind lithium-ion batteries, thinks this could be hot air

Science20 Apr 2023 | 146

Military helicopter crash blamed on failure to apply software patch

A rather nice beach in Australia now briefly hosted an unusual feature

Patches18 Apr 2023 | 49

To improve security, consider how the aviation world stopped blaming pilots

When admitting to an error isn't seen as a failure, improvement easy to achieve, says pilot-turned-CISO

Security14 Apr 2023 | 69

China aims to pair J-20 stealth fighter with 'loyal wingman' battle drone

Reports suggest Beijing may speed past rivals with supersonic helper for its air superiority weapon

Defense Tech Week03 Apr 2023 | 28

Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes

Australian airline Qantas warns pilots to keep calm and carry on amid reports of satnav and altimeter jamming

Defense Tech Week20 Mar 2023 | 152

US warns aging air-traffic control code won't be fixed until 2030

NOTAM chance in hell this stuff is getting sorted soon despite outage

Software07 Feb 2023 | 13

Mitsubishi gives up on Japan's first domestically manufactured passenger jet

Lessons learned could be applied to a next-gen fighter, says company

Systems07 Feb 2023 | 37

Southwest promotes internal IT executive to CIO in wake of that Christmas meltdown

She's got a lot of work to do

On-Prem02 Feb 2023 | 7

Boeing bids the 747 a final, ultimate, conclusive farewell

Cargo airline Atlas Air takes delivery of 1,547th and last Queen of the Skies

Offbeat01 Feb 2023 | 29

Aviation overhaul bill passes US House... for the third time

Maybe it'll be different this year as clamors of 'I told you so' accompany the proposal

Networks26 Jan 2023 | 16

US authorities release asylum seekers after leaking their data online

In brief Also: US terrorist no-fly list found left on unsecured server, Russian dark web drug markets go to war

Security23 Jan 2023 | 4

Massive outage grounded US flights because someone accidentally deleted a file

Our lives are in your hands, and you have butterfingers?

Software21 Jan 2023 | 41

Let me X-plane: Boeing R&D unit sheds rudder, ailerons, flaps for DARPA project

US research agency paying $42.4m for working full-scale aircraft that ejects air out of its surfaces

Offbeat18 Jan 2023 | 44

Surely you can't be serious: Airbus close to landing fully automated passenger jets

DragonFly designed to land and taxi when the pilot is incapacitated, or just busy

AI + ML13 Jan 2023 | 155

Flaming USB battery halts flight from Taiwan to Singapore

And that’s why aviation authorities don’t allow power banks in checked luggage

Personal Tech12 Jan 2023 | 32

FAA grounds all US departures after NOTAM goes down

Updated 'Damaged database file' blamed, no evidence of cyberattack found, as air travel chaos continues

Networks11 Jan 2023 | 55

Southwest promotes key staff right after that Christmas meltdown

Union claims bosses are flying the biz into 'graveyard spiral'

On-Prem10 Jan 2023 | 10

FAA sets 2024 deadline for preventing 5G crash landings

US watchdog puts its foot down: Even a small possibility of interference means a fix is mandatory

Networks10 Jan 2023 | 11

Southwest Airlines sued for failing to give prompt refunds after IT meltdown

Asking us to 'submit a receipt for consideration' just doesn't cut it, claims would-be class action

Software06 Jan 2023 | 15

Techies try to bypass damaged UPS, send 380V into air traffic system

New Year's Day debacle strands thousands of passengers, attributed to decade-old tech

On-Prem03 Jan 2023 | 116

Southwest Airlines blames IT breakdown for stranding holiday travelers

Have they tried turning it off and back on again?

Networks28 Dec 2022 | 77

Big Apple locals hire Russians to game New York's taxi system

Scheme allegedly allowed taxi drivers to bypass airport waiting line for $10 fee

Security20 Dec 2022 | 24

British Airways flights grounded due to glitch in flight planning app

Flight computers down for 2 hours worldwide 'and no BA plane can file a flight plan? Seems not ideal'

SaaS20 Dec 2022 | 16

Eurozone plans to formalize passenger data, improve security

Central hub will make things smoother and safer but not store details

Security20 Dec 2022 | 25

Musk bans private-plane-tracking @Elonjet on Twitter, threatens legal action

Updated Say what you want – until Elon decides it affects him, too

Offbeat15 Dec 2022 | 188

End of an era as the last 747 rolls off the production line

Boeing … Boeing … gone

Science08 Dec 2022 | 73

US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that'll fly the unfriendly skies

'Digital bomber' will bring 'peace through deterrence'

Security03 Dec 2022 | 187

Rolls-Royce, EasyJet fire up first hydrogen-fueled jet engine

Sustainable aviation will require something lighter than batteries

Science29 Nov 2022 | 106

CT scanning tech could put an end to 100ml liquid limit on flights by 2024

Scrapping 'temporary' measure will slash queue times at airports... but don't ditch your baggie yet, say officials

Systems24 Nov 2022 | 68

FAA wants pilots to be less dependent on computer autopilots

US aviation advisory addresses concerns raised follow 2013 Asiana Airlines crash

Software23 Nov 2022 | 84

FAA asks for vendor feedback on $10b tech contract

But keen to avoid any mf bespoke software on the mf planes (and other hardware)

Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 4

Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot

This is despite a wealth of evidence showing the value of having two in the cockpit

Personal Tech21 Nov 2022 | 164

China's first domestic single-aisle jet, the C919, scores 300 orders

Thousands behind Airbus and Boeing, but the backlogs of western airliners might sweeten the deal

Offbeat09 Nov 2022 | 71

SpaceX's in-flight Wi-Fi, Starlink Aviation, takes to the skies

Oh c'mon! Was it too much to expect Skynet?

Networks19 Oct 2022 | 10

Quit worrying about 5G C-band and crashing aircraft, US govt eggheads sigh

Back off FAA, I'm a scientist

Networks12 Oct 2022 | 13

Delta Air Lines throws $60m at flying taxi startup Joby Aviation

Will fly passengers to and from city airports, if it ever takes off

Offbeat12 Oct 2022 | 22

Viasat and Inmarsat $7.3b tie-up delayed over competition concerns

The multibillion dollar question: Will it make in-flight Wi-Fi on planes more expensive?

Networks07 Oct 2022 | 6

Larry Page's flying taxi startup Kittyhawk calls it a day

More proof, if it were needed, that not everything connected to Google is gold

Offbeat22 Sep 2022 | 18

Heart now pledges 30-seat hybrid electric commercial flights by 2028

We've heard something like this before ... Boss suggests earlier design wasn't that useful to industry

Bootnotes16 Sep 2022 | 75

China's single aisle passenger jet – the C919 – likely to be certified next week

Competes with the A320 and 737, which Airbus and Boeing can't build quickly enough to satisfy demand

Offbeat14 Sep 2022 | 102

Australian wasps threaten another passenger plane, with help from COVID-19

A350 saved from peril by sharp-eyed ground crew

Offbeat19 Aug 2022 | 108

US military fuels eVTOL research with $75m contract

The renewed agreement more than doubles the DoD's deal with Joby Aviation

Science12 Aug 2022 | 11

Delta Airlines takes flight with Amazon Web Services

If you look out the window to your left, you'll see we've outsourced our infrastructure

PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2022 | 3

5G C-band rollout at US airports slowed over radio altimeter safety fears

Well, they did say from July, now they really mean from July 2023

Networks27 Jun 2022 | 10

Airbus flies new passenger airplane aimed at 'long, thin' routes

The A321XLR assumes you're happy spending 11 hours in a single-aisle plane

Offbeat17 Jun 2022 | 158

Ransomware grounds some flights at Indian budget airline SpiceJet

Incident comes a week after 'SAP glitch' kept some planes on the taxiway

Cyber-crime26 May 2022 | 5

FAA now says 5G airports may interfere with Boeing 737s

'Radio altimeters cannot be relied upon to function' – gulp

Networks24 Feb 2022 | 66