US aviation regulator warns of mid-air collision risk if Garmin TCAS boxes are not updated
Updated Software fixes available, says FAA
22 Apr 2021
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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
08 Apr 2021
Boeing confirms last 747 to roll off production line in 2022
Last four built will be freighters. And mighty freighters at that
13 Jan 2021
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
10 Nov 2020
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
02 Nov 2020
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
08 Oct 2020
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
06 Oct 2020
Singapore Airlines turns A380 into a restaurant, delivers plane food to homes
As Australia's Qantas sells off old 747 drinks carts, fully loaded
30 Sep 2020
Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent, say aviation safety bods
Solution? A software update, natch
24 Sep 2020
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
18 Sep 2020
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
10 Aug 2020
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...
30 Jun 2020
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
25 Jun 2020
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
11 Jun 2020
Boeing brings back the 737 Max but also lays off thousands
And still no sign of safe software or approval to fly
28 May 2020
Sweet TCAS! We can make airliners go up-diddly-up whenever we want, say infosec researchers
Pen Test Partners probes auto collision avoidance system
04 May 2020
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
04 Mar 2020
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
17 Dec 2019
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