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Mar 27, 2015
NASA and industry are making progress on the human factors aspects of a long-distance relationship between two pilots flying an airliner – one in the air and one on the ground.
Mar 27, 2015
Boeing assesses 787 ecoDemonstrator results as 757 debuts to focus on aerodynamic tests
Mar 27, 2015
The new French carrier has 55-65% load factors between Newark and Paris—so why will it soon fly to London?
Mar 27, 2015
The world of air transport has experienced two major disputes that have led to fierce discussions bordering on open hostility, serious threats and tensions that have not been easy to overcome. First the European Commission (EC) tried to impose its view of how aviation should tackle the increase of CO2 emissions on the rest of the industry and was stopped only at the last minute when it became clear a trade war would be unavoidable. Then European and U.S. airlines launched a massive anti-Gulf carrier campaign.
Mar 27, 2015
How well the Clean Sky 2 research program balances near- and long-term technologies could prove crucial to Europe’s civil-aircraft industry
Mar 27, 2015
CEO Mauro Moretti is grappling with the Italian group’s debt in a bid to restore Finmeccanica to profitability by the end of this decade.
Mar 27, 2015
Investigators of downed Germanwings find that the first officer “deliberately crashed” the Airbus A320 into the side of a mountain; debates about psychological oversight of pilots and cockpit access are already beginning.
Mar 27, 2015
Germanwings crash could spur a revival of technology solutions to scuttle deliberate pilot, passenger actions to down an aircraft.