Aviation

Watchdog clears 90 per cent of US commercial aircraft to land in low visibility at nation's 5G C-band airports

Updated Don't start celebrating just yet if you own a Boeing 747-8, 747-8F, 777

Networks26 Jan 2022 | 28

'95% original' film star Spitfire could be yours for a mere £4.5m (or 0.05 Pogbas)

Freshly overhauled, several careful owners

Offbeat21 Jan 2022 | 52

Japan solves 5G airliner conundrum: Keep mobe masts 200m from airport approach paths. That's it

(And maintain a guard band.) US airliners melt down as rest of world moves on

Networks19 Jan 2022 | 70

5G frequencies won't interfere with airliners here, UK and EU aviation regulators say

US (and Canadian) fears are uniquely Leftpondian, it seems

Networks14 Jan 2022 | 44

50 US airports to be surrounded by 5G C-band-free zones

AT&T and Verizon come to agreement with FAA on tech rollout

Networks10 Jan 2022 | 28

Sun sets on superjumbo: Last Airbus A380 rolls off the production line

It’s massive and fun to fly in, but expensive to run and not as nimble as rivals

Offbeat17 Dec 2021 | 83

After deadly 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers, scarcity of expertise, more

Not to mention the FAA delegating its watchdog duties to the actual aircraft manufacturers

Software15 Dec 2021 | 181

Boeing 737 Max chief technical pilot charged with deceiving US aviation regulators over MCAS

He hasn't got $2.5bn to hand to the DoJ, unlike his bosses

Legal15 Oct 2021 | 149

Airline meal-sized £700k awarded by UK.gov for green aviation: That's for eco-tech rather than planes, mind

Infrastructure to support lower-emission aircraft, is the hope

Science30 Sep 2021 | 13

Report details how Airbus pilots saved the day when all three flight computers failed on landing

Software 'enhancement' on the way after triple touchdown TITSUP

Software06 Sep 2021 | 153

Japan's aerospace agency hooks up with Boeing to make planes quieter when they land

Hope to address the noise of airflows over flaps and other parts as that can be louder than engines

Science20 Aug 2021 | 76

‘Fasten your seat belts, raise your tray table, and disconnect your Bluetooth headsets from the entertainment unit’

United Airlines buys 200 planes — plans to give ’em ten inches of entertainment and a double dose of wireless

Personal Tech30 Jun 2021 | 39

US aviation regulator warns of mid-air collision risk if Garmin TCAS boxes are not updated

Updated Software fixes available, says FAA

Security22 Apr 2021 | 23

Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children

Passenger weight blunder led to wrong thrust used on takeoff, says watchdog

Applications08 Apr 2021 | 322

Boeing confirms last 747 to roll off production line in 2022

Last four built will be freighters. And mighty freighters at that

Science13 Jan 2021 | 25

Radio Frequency fingerprinting of aircraft ADS-B transmitters? Boffins reckon they've cracked it

More data points needed, says academic, but technique could give governments a spoofin' bad headache

Security10 Nov 2020 | 22

Mitsubishi grounds its attempt to crack the passenger jet market

$9bn SpaceJet isn’t dead, but defence, mobility and electronics offer better short-term prospects

Science02 Nov 2020 | 4

K8s on a plane! US Air Force slaps Googly container tech on yet another war machine to 'run advanced ML algorithms'

And if that's not Skynet enough for ya, Britten-Norman is working to make the BN-2 Islander fly autonomously

Security08 Oct 2020 | 17

Meet the new aviation insecurity, same as the old aviation insecurity: Next-gen ACAS X just as vulnerable to spoofing as its predecessor

Faking an emergency collision alarm - just what you don't need over Heathrow

Security06 Oct 2020 | 12

Singapore Airlines turns A380 into a restaurant, delivers plane food to homes

As Australia's Qantas sells off old 747 drinks carts, fully loaded

Bootnotes30 Sep 2020 | 34

Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent, say aviation safety bods

Solution? A software update, natch

Software24 Sep 2020 | 92

Did this airliner land in the North Sea? No. So what happened? El Reg probes flight tracker site oddity

All is well. Unless you trust everything you see on the internet

Networks18 Sep 2020 | 60

Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks

DEF CON Industry binning old aircraft is an opportunity for aviation infosec

Security10 Aug 2020 | 95

You wait ages for a mid-air collision spoofing attack and along come two at once: More boffins take a crack at hoodwinking TCAS

Easy to fool safety system, in theory – in practice, well...

Science30 Jun 2020 | 20

Fasten your seat belts: Brave Reg hack spends a week eating airline food grounded by coronavirus crash

Special report Mmmm... microwaved protein chunks in spiced slurry – with rating by top analyst

Bootnotes25 Jun 2020 | 104

EU aviation wonks give all-electric training aeroplane the green light – but noob pilots only have 50 mins before they have to land it

So don't expect to go very far

Bootnotes11 Jun 2020 | 93

Boeing brings back the 737 Max but also lays off thousands

And still no sign of safe software or approval to fly

On-Prem28 May 2020 | 116

Sweet TCAS! We can make airliners go up-diddly-up whenever we want, say infosec researchers

Pen Test Partners probes auto collision avoidance system

Security04 May 2020 | 41

Fancy that: Hacking airliner systems doesn't make them magically fall out of the sky

Study finds most A320 pilots shrug, ignore dodgy systems and land safely

Security04 Mar 2020 | 94

Deadly 737 Max jets no longer a Boeing concern – for now: Production suspended after biz runs out of parking space

That kill-everyone-onboard flaw that was supposed to be fixed by now? Yep, still an issue

Software17 Dec 2019 | 116

That was some of the best flying I've seen to date, right up to the part where you got hacked

Raytheon has a punt at aviation security with bus software suite

Security07 Oct 2019 | 36

Wake me up before you Gogo ... so I can jump out: Kenyan MP takes on aeroplane flatulence

Further investigation suggests she may actually have a point

Bootnotes15 Sep 2019 | 82

US military swoops into DEF CON seeking a few good hackers for debut aviation pwning village

DEF CON Faulty F-15s, at-risk airbases and much more

Security12 Aug 2019 | 18

Will that old Vulcan's engines run? Bluebird jet boat team turn to Cold War bomber

Feature Static display jet last ran in 1983

Bootnotes02 Jul 2019 | 143

You're not Boeing to believe this, but... Another deadly 737 Max control bug found

Sim uncovers code-triggered hardware failure that pitches jetliner nose down

Software27 Jun 2019 | 227

Mystery GPS glitch grounds flights, leaves passengers in the bar

The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system is not happy. Not happy at all

Networks11 Jun 2019 | 57

Heathrow Airport drops £50m on CT scanners to help smooth passage through security checks

Leave your lappy in the bag at every UK terminal from 2022

Bootnotes06 Jun 2019 | 42

The plane, it's 'splained, falls mainly without the brain: We chat to boffins who've found a way to disrupt landings using off-the-shelf radio kit

Video DoS cyber-attacks are not just for websites, they may also be for aircraft ILS

Security16 May 2019 | 35

I've had it with these mother-fscking slaps on this mother-fscking plane: Flight fight sparks legal brouhaha over mid-air co-ords

Special report I slapped you in Nebraska, sunshine, not California

Bootnotes17 Apr 2019 | 126

EU aren't kidding: Sky watchdog breathes life into mad air taxi ideas

EASA's writing rules for them after 'a number of requests'

Science16 Oct 2018 | 51

Boeing embraces Embraer to take off in regional jet market

100-seaters are now a duopoly, too, so please don’t mention the trade war

Bootnotes06 Jul 2018 | 36

'Plane Hacker' Roberts: I put a network sniffer on my truck to see what it was sharing. Holy crap!

Interview FBI botherer picks apart state of transport security

Security04 Jul 2018 | 146

Please tighten your passwords and assume the brace position, says plane-tracking site

Data breach at Flightradar24 scored some email addresses and hashed passwords

Security21 Jun 2018 | 28

First A380 flown in anger to be broken up for parts

Owner can’t find anyone to fly the thing profitably

On-Prem12 Jun 2018 | 123

Airbus windscreen fell out at 32,000 feet

Bits of flight deck sucked out of Sichuan Airlines A319, which landed safely with two injuries

Bootnotes15 May 2018 | 140

Shining lasers at planes in the UK could now get you up to 5 years in jail

Freshly passed law means intent is no longer important

Security11 May 2018 | 92

Don’t fight automation software for control, just turn it off. FAST

Report into fatal air accident shows machines can't be trusted to negotiate a crisis

Science17 Apr 2018 | 118

Airbus plans beds in passenger plane cargo holds

Poll Small problem: world faces big shortages of air freight capacity

Science11 Apr 2018 | 134

Digital air traffic control upgrade puts potential delays on London flights

Replacement for paper-pushing system 'very carefully phased'

Legal06 Apr 2018 | 24

EUROCONTROL outage causes flight delays across Europe

5 hours downtime in 17 years is pretty good – but moaning about late planes trumps all

On-Prem04 Apr 2018 | 34

Boeing ships its 10,000th 737

Airlines want another 4,600 of the single-aisle workhorse that debuted in 1967

Bootnotes15 Mar 2018 | 36

Long haul flights on a one-aisle plane? Airbus thinks you’re up for it

240-seat A321LR takes to the skies with 7,400km range

On-Prem05 Feb 2018 | 138

Fancy coughing up for a £2,000 'nanodegree' in flying car design?

Comment You can muck about with Python and flight sims at home. For free

Software26 Jan 2018 | 63

NASA is sniffing jet fuel over Germany

Ancient DC-8 will try to figure out if biofuel’s a sick burn for contrails. NOT chemtrails, OK?

Science23 Jan 2018 | 88

A380 saved as Emirates orders another 20 planes, plus 16 options

Airbus says it’ll keep building the behemoth of the skies into the 2030s

On-Prem19 Jan 2018 | 45

Airbus warns it could quit A380 production

Needs to make six to eight a year, predicts it can get back to 25 a year once airlines wake up

On-Prem16 Jan 2018 | 141