Air Safety

The RoboLander Agenda A European consortium of regulators and aviation manufacturers is pushing forward with development of the RoboLander air security device, to the tune of $45 million. The International […]

Anyone rejoicing over the space shuttle’s safe return, as a catharsis of earlier disaster, would do well to recapitulate a mite. Consider the following: a. NASA ultimately launched on the […]

With Double Flame-outs, The Stress is Additive When a Pinnacle Airlines regional jet flamed out both engines in October 2004, it was ultimately revealed that the pilots had exceeded the […]

Braking Old Habit Patterns and Pulling a Stop to Runway Overruns Hardly a day goes by without an airliner or bizjet sliding off the end of a short or slippery […]

Looking beyond the headline-grabbing issues of in-flight avian-flu transmission or biochemical attack, a group of researchers with funding from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are pursuing several more prosaic concerns […]

Although the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is requiring all turbojet operators to land with a 15 percent safety margin by Sept. 1, it will still partly be up to operators […]

Prior to takeoff, pilots usually want the latest weather data so they can predict conditions along their intended routes. In Alaska, less data interpretation comes into play because pilots can […]

As U.S. and Canadian officials continue working toward an integrated bird strike database, airlines and airports will soon have practical new alternatives for keeping birds and aircraft apart. The database […]

While the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) admitted to Congress on May 24 that many of its investigations drag on for far too long, legislators are unlikely to offer extra […]

Although a demonstration in Alaska of "automatic dependant surveillance-broadcast" (ADS-B) has hit a temporary snag, both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the local aviation community believe that the technology […]