Published on: 2025-06-21 05:00:14
Stocktrek Images/Getty Images The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first stealth aircraft, had a striking design driven by radar invisibility rather than intimidation. Its flat, triangular surfaces minimized radar detection but caused instability in yaw, pitch, and roll -- the three dimensions of flight control. Most aircraft are designed to be stable, allowing pilots to easily control their movement and return to a steady course after disturbances. Stability is crucial for safety and ease of fli
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In Brief U.S. lawmakers introduced Wednesday the Supersonic Aviation Modernization Act in a bid to revise the FAA’s 52-year ban on supersonic flight over U.S. soil. The bipartisan legislation – introduced by Senator Ted Budd (R-NC), Aviation Subcommittee Chair Troy Nehls (R-TX), and Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS) – would allow supersonic travel, provided no audible sonic boom reaches the ground. Dubbed the “Boom” bill, the move comes as Colorado-based Boom Supersonic makes progress in de
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Russia’s war in Ukraine and President Donald Trump’s reluctance to support NATO allies has led to a boost in funding for European defense tech. And across industries, startups are leveraging the opportunity. One such company could be U.K.-based startup Vertical Aerospace, which is developing eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft mainly for air-taxi operations. The startup has more than 1,500 preorders for its VX4 eVTOL from customers like American Airlines, Japan Airlines, GOL,
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Yevdokimov was now in the grip of a divergent PIO event. However, because the sidestick has a nearly direct relationship with elevator position in Normal Mode below 50 feet anyway, the fact that the controls were in Direct Mode played almost no direct role in the events described in the above paragraph. Rather, if Direct Mode had any influence on these events at all, it was to accustom Yevdokimov to making excessive control inputs, as I discussed earlier. This explains why the magnitude of his i
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>>> 2025-05-11 air traffic control (PDF) Air traffic control has been in the news lately, on account of my country's declining ability to do it. Well, that's a long-term trend, resulting from decades of under-investment, severe capture by our increasingly incompetent defense-industrial complex, no small degree of management incompetence in the FAA, and long-lasting effects of Reagan crushing the PATCO strike. But that's just my opinion, you know, maybe airplanes got too woke. In any case, it's
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The aspiring air taxi company Joby Aviation just completed a complicated in-air maneuver that puts the company’s futuristic-looking aircraft on the path toward Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) flight testing. Joby successfully flew one of its six-rotor aircraft from vertical hover to horizontal cruise flight and back again with a pilot onboard, showcasing the aircraft’s versatility in the air—a key value proposition of Joby’s sleek, electrically powered design. The test flight took place
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The U.S. government admitted on Monday that it has “lost” a very, very expensive jet after it slipped off a moving aircraft carrier last week. The warplane, a US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet, somehow tumbled off the USS Harry S. Truman after the ship reportedly came under fire from Houthi rebels. The carrier has been deployed in the region for months as part of the U.S. effort to deter activity by the Yemen-based fighters, the Associated Press reports. “The F/A-18E was actively under t
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left to right and top to bottom: then Prime Minister John Diefenbaker; opening ceremony with a crowd milling around the Avro CF-105 Arrow RL201; welcoming Zurakowski after testing the Avro CF-105 Arrow RL201; transferring design instructions onto a master glass cloth for the reproduction of parts; The Avro Arrow was a beautiful machine. It still would be, if there were any left. Orland French recalls the romance and mystique of the Canadian supersonic superstar that never was. I was 13 when th
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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Archer says it will launch an air taxi service in New York City with United Airlines, which will include routes between Manhattan and major airports like JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark. The aviation company aims to replace hourlong taxi rides along congested roads with breezy flights lasting between 5-15 minutes. Archer and Un
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New York City — where you can get a dollar slice at 2am or a McDonald’s delivery in under 30 minutes, but still spend two hours crawling down the highway to catch a flight. Archer Aviation wants to change that. The electric aircraft startup says its air taxis could one day fly passengers from Manhattan to nearby airports in five to 15 minutes. The startup on Thursday unveiled its proposed air taxi network for the city in partnership with United Airlines, which would allow passengers to tack on
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When Germany deployed magnetic mines early in the war, Britain countered with aircraft that could explode them by mimicking a ship’s magnetic signature. On September 3, 1939, two days after Germany invaded Poland, the German submarines U-13, U-14 and U-17 started laying three fields of magnetic-influence mines on the sea floor just off Britain’s east coast. Within days, four ships totaling 14,575 gross registered tons were sunk and another 10,391 GRT of shipping was damaged. Although mines were
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China just approved its first flying taxis for commercial passenger service. This groundbreaking move marks a significant shift in the future of urban mobility, positioning China at the forefront of autonomous air transport. These vehicles are expected to redefine how cities tackle traffic congestion and pollution, acting as a model for future smart city infrastructure worldwide. Official Regulatory Approval The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has granted air operator certificat
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Owners of private jets can now request that their names and addresses be kept private, thanks to a rule enacted last week by the US Federal Aviation Administration, which was signed into law last year. According to the FAA, ownership information wouldn't be publicly available on its websites. The new rule appears to be partly in response to social media accounts that post air travel information about celebrities such as Elon Musk and Taylor Swift, which has faced criticism in the past due to pr
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The US Federal Aviation Administration last week enacted a rule, signed into law last year, that lets owners of private jets request that their names and addresses be kept private. According to the FAA, this means ownership information wouldn't be made available on its websites for public viewing. An electronic request form has been made available for owners to use. The new rule appears to be, at least in part, a response to social media accounts that post air travel information about celebriti
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Aviation enthusiasts have monitored at least two flights of multiple B-2 Spirit bombers transiting from Whiteman AFB to the strategic Indian Ocean outpost at Diego Garcia. Using open source information from websites such as LiveATC, Flightradar24, and Airframes.io, some details of a significant surprise deployment of U.S. Air Force strategic bombers have been pieced together by aviation enthusiasts on social media. Though B-2 Spirits do not use the necessary transponder modes that online fligh
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Introduction On a typical day, there are greater than 10,000 aircraft (commercial, private, and military) in flight at any given time. The precise departure (point A) and destination (point B) locations, as well as the timing of flight activity, provide critically important information for myriad industries. For instance, in the defense and intelligence sector, being able to identify how many aircraft were stationed at one foreign government’s airbase (point A) and how many are gone the next da
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Introduction On a typical day, there are greater than 10,000 aircraft (commercial, private, and military) in flight at any given time. The precise departure (point A) and destination (point B) locations, as well as the timing of flight activity, provide critically important information for myriad industries. For instance, in the defense and intelligence sector, being able to identify how many aircraft were stationed at one foreign government’s airbase (point A) and how many are gone the next da
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This small companion website is designed to provide a brief overview of the ACARS Drama project, along with some code snippets and other information regarding the project, and how you can contribute. A project to map out every broken coffee maker in the sky A question I’ve been asked a few times since I took a little project I had for a year or so operating privately under my desk, and turned it into a social media bot. Note: this post is designed as a more high-level overview of what ACARS/V
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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Virgin Atlantic announced a partnership with California-based Joby Aviation to launch an air taxi service in the UK, becoming the latest airline to bet on a new class of electric aircraft vying to become taxis in the sky. Joby’s all-electric aircraft has six rotors and seats five, including the pilot. The vehicle can take
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If your work travel frequently involves short regional hops, get ready for Wi-Fi service that's better than what folks soaring in larger planes are using. After announcing a deal with SpaceX late last year, United Airlines has begun installing Starlink satellite Wi-Fi hardware in its fleet of aircraft. The switchover is expected to bring wireless internet speeds of up to 250Mbps, which is comparable to some terrestrial internet services and 50 times faster than what's offered in current regiona
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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Delta Air Lines is backing a startup that wants to design more fuel-efficient, blended-wing-body aircraft in the hopes of reducing its carbon footprint and making air travel more sustainable. The airline said today that it will help support the development of startup JetZero’s blended-wing-body (BWB) demonstrator aircraft
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On a warm summer morning at Princeton University, aerospace engineer Aimy Wissa was at the university helipad, preparing to fly a remote-controlled plane. But this wasn’t just any model aircraft. Across the top of its wings, Wissa and her team had carefully attached three rows of thin, flexible plastic flaps, hinged with tape. Guided by a mini flight computer once up in the air, the 1.5-meter-wide aircraft repeatedly performed a test maneuver—gradually pitching its nose up until it lost lift an
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On a warm summer morning at Princeton University, aerospace engineer Aimy Wissa was at the university helipad, preparing to fly a remote-controlled plane. But this wasn’t just any model aircraft. Across the top of its wings, Wissa and her team had carefully attached three rows of thin, flexible plastic flaps, hinged with tape. Guided by a mini flight computer once up in the air, the 1.5-meter-wide aircraft repeatedly performed a test maneuver—gradually pitching its nose up until it lost lift an
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Hey HN, we’re Eric and Kristian of Enhanced Radar. We’re working on making air travel safer by augmenting control services in our stressed airspace system. Recent weeks have put aviation safety on everyone’s mind, but we’ve been thinking about this problem for years. Both of us are pilots — we have 2,500 hours of flight time between us. Eric flew professionally and holds a Gulfstream 280 type rating and both FAA and EASA certificates. Kristian flies recreationally, and before this worked on edg
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