The Rafale fighter aircraft is like a "quick change artist." It’s versatile–made for both ground-based and carrier-based operations–and was designed for quick operation. How quick? Refueling ...

With jet airliners coming to depend ever more heavily on electronic systems for vital functions, Scarry believes their vulnerability to EMI poses a potentially lethal threat to air safety. In her ...

For over a decade, the U.S. has been facing a persistent and growing shortage of air traffic controllers. The problem has ...

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants the U.S. Air Force to lay out its plan for full- scale production of ...

As commercial air traffic surges back to pre-pandemic levels—and in many regions, surpasses them—aviation’s longstanding ...

In this video presentation, I examine the crisis bedeviling the U.S. Air Traffic Control (ATC) system. Click here to view my video: Below is an edited transcript of my […] ...

Europe’s fragmented air traffic control (ATC) system has long been a source of inefficiency, delays, and frustration. Unlike the U.S., which operates under a unified FAA-controlled airspace, Europe ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told Congress on July 23 that it will cost $31.5 billion to fully modernize the nation’s air traffic control (ATC) system, a sweeping upgrade the […] ...

As global air travel rebounds with a vengeance, the aviation industry is once again grappling with a painful bottleneck: ...

However, over a decade after its launch, the full promise of NextGen remains frustratingly incomplete. Critical gaps persist in the implementation of its most advanced, avionics-based features ...

As modern ATC becomes increasingly reliant on sophisticated avionics infrastructure, the stability of terrestrial power grids is emerging as a critical factor […] ...