By Aaron Karp and Ben Iannotta
November 1, 2024
U.K. researchers are in the midst of Project Bluebird, a multiyear effort to create competing versions of artificial intelligence agents to see if one could in theory be capable of autonomously controlling air traffic. Aaron Karp and Ben Iannotta spoke to researchers about their plans to conduct live trials in the safety of a digital twin of the airspace.
By Keith Button
May 1, 2024
Despite the brushes with aircraft collisions at U.S. airports, FAA has no plans to expand its most elaborate and expensive ground collision alert technology beyond the 20 airports that already have it. Keith Button spoke to FAA-funded researchers who believe they might have a lower-cost solution.
October 1, 2023
Those electric air taxis we hear so much about could turn out to be a stepping stone to a transportation revolution that will change where and how we live and maybe help clean up the planet. Futurist Dennis M. Bushnell explains.
By Keith Button
May 1, 2023
The spate of near collisions at U.S. airports this year has energized discussions in the industry over technical and human factors solutions. An alert system rolled out so far to only 20 airports in the U.S. could point the way. Keith Button tells the story.
By Aaron Karp
March 1, 2022
October 1, 2020
In the coming years, the FAA and equivalent authorities around the world must establish an air transportation network that can welcome futuristic aircraft and hitherto unseen flight volumes. The FAA’s NextGen air transportation network is a good start, but more is needed. Gregg Leone and Emily Stelzer of the MITRE Corp.’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development in Virginia give us a glimpse of the future.
By Ben Iannotta
October 31, 2018
By Debra Werner
May 31, 2018
Arwa Aweiss, 38, flight test director for NASA’s Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management Project, Ames Research Center
By Tom Risen
January 2, 2018
Nancy Graham
By Tom Risen
October 30, 2017
MARY SCHIAVO
By Tom Risen
June 27, 2017
VINCENT CAPEZZUTO
June 27, 2017
A weather-data transformation is playing out in cockpits
By Keith Button
May 31, 2017
Examining the aerospace industry’s next-generation software
By Debra Werner
May 31, 2017
The debate over shifting air traffic control out of FAA
By Ben Iannotta
May 31, 2017
By Tom Risen
May 31, 2017
May 17, 2017
2 leading aerospace journalists analyze the most important decisions facing President Donald Trump's administration
By Debra Werner
May 2, 2017
By Debra Werner
May 1, 2017
March 6, 2017
Businesses are racing to meet an FAA mandate for training
By Ben Iannotta
October 18, 2016
Jim Eck, FAA’s assistant administrator for the Next Generation Air Transportation System
