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A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month indicates the captain cut the flow of fuel to the Boeing 787 jet's engines, the Wall Street ...

The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we should copy its privatized air traffic control system.

From Cables to Code: Why Flight Laws Were Introduced In the past, flight controls, which used yokes and rudder pedals to directly operate control surfaces via cables, rods, and hydraulics, were the ...

As is, this is fairly difficult to read. I would like for the split between the three relevant functions (flight.c:pid_loop, flight.c:pid_control, and flight.c:v_pid_function) to be refactored and ...

The Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Transportation unveiled a plan to modernize the nation's air traffic control system on May 8.

A brand new "state of the art" air traffic control system will be unveiled by the Trump administration in the "next couple days," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday.

The jet’s flight recorder showed its altitude as 325 feet, plus or minus 25 feet. Data from the airport’s air traffic control system suggests the helicopter was above its 200-foot flight ceiling.

Transitions between different states are automated. For example, when readying for a departure, the flight-control system automatically tilts the rotors from taxi mode to take-off position.