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The collapse of the Future Combat Air System programme led by France and Germany highlights how diverging national interests and coordination difficulties are challenging European armament cooperation.
Canada’s wildfire aviation system remains decentralized. That model worked when fire seasons were staggered geographically. Increasingly, they are not.
Strategic resources have been central to the American-led global system for decades, as a historian explains. But US actions toward Greenland today are different.
Even moderate night-time aircraft noise can increase insomnia – particularly children. The US and UK both do more to mitigate the noise around airports.
An experimental Nasa plane could pave the way for a new generation of supersonic planes.
Exciting as it sounds, most of this technology is still locked away in labs, not available in airports.
Various failure scenarios have been aired as the Boeing 787 crash investigation continues.
Looking back in time could inspire the aircraft innovations of the future.
The fighter jets are likely to incorporate AI, as well as advanced engine and stealth technology.
These planes need a lot more fuel as they experience significantly more drag beyond the speed of sound.
A Traffic Collision Avoidance System – or TCAS – isn’t designed to work at low altitudes.
The company can recover from its problems, but will need to deliver on promises to get its house in order.
Network equipment riding on balloons, airships, gliders and planes could boost internet access, including in disaster zones, and improve scientific monitoring.
Analysis of data from underwater microphones could help researchers discover the fate of missing flight MH370.
With severe injuries from turbulence on a recent Singapore Airlines flight, questions abound over why airplanes encounter this phenomenon and whether climate change really will make it worse.
There have been so many problems with the 737 Max that the nuclear option may be the best way forward.
The chaos caused over the August bank holiday may well have been preventable.
54 people have died in crashes of the controversial ‘tiltrotor’ V-22 Osprey aircraft – but the military advantage it offers is too great to be discounted.
The last of four new Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft has landed, substantially increasing New Zealand’s surveillance – and military – capacity. But how they are best deployed is open to debate.
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