Company hails start of the ‘electric aviation age’ after 15-minute test flight in Vancouver

The Safe Return Emergency Autoland System lets passengers hit a big red button to bring the plane to safety if the pilot's incapacitated.

The FAA has issued an Air Worthiness Directive (AD) for high time Boeing 737 NGs, requiring immediate inspections for cracks in their wing attachments called pickle forks. The cracks were discovered on high time aircraft which were torn down for conversion to freighters.

Pilots of unmanned combat drones are experiencing a new kind of moral dissonance, writes Adam Henschke.

Following a failed attempt in July, French inventor Franky Zapata successfully crossed the Channel on top of a hoverboard this weekend. Starting his trek in Sangatte in northern France, the journey took 20 minutes, before landing in St. Margarets Bay, England. “For the last five to six kilometers I…

Patch your darn metal bird, sighs EU aviation agency

Just when the smallest jet should have been replaced with a new model, the company fell into tight-fisted hands—with fatal consequences. By Clive Irving.

The US Air Force hopes that the XQ58-A Valkyrie drone wingman might someday accompany the F-35 and a new version of the F-15 fighter jet, according to Defense News. The aircraft is designed to fill a role known as “loyal wingman” — imagined as a low-cost platform that would be controlled by a parent aircraft to accomplish a variety of tasks, such as flying ahead to scout out terrain, or absorb enemy fire in the event that they’re attacked.

Radios that sell for $600 can spoof signals planes use to find runways.

Boeing knew in mid-2017 that a warning light linked to a key sensor on the 737 MAX wasn't working on most of the airplanes, but it informed neither the FAA nor the airlines until after the Lion Air crash. By Dominic Gates.

A 737 with more than 100 people on board overshot the runway at NAS Jacksonville and crashed into the St. Johns River late Friday evening. There were 136 passengers and seven crew members aboard the Miami Air aircraft, and all were safe and accounted for, officials said.

The Federal Aviation Administration has received at least four calls from potential Boeing employee whistleblowers about issues with the company's new 737 Max jetliner, CBS News has confirmed. The calls began coming in within hours of Ethiopian investigators releasing a preliminary report on the second of those crashes, that of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 last month. A source familiar with them confirms the April 5 calls were from current and former Boeing employees alleging possible issues related to the angle of attack (AOA) sensor and the MCAS anti-stall system that relies on data from the sensor.

Designed by Scots engineers, the Phoenix is a new type of plane which can travel long distances and stay aloft for long periods.

Paul Linsell's World War Two replica, which he spent seven years restoring, is going on display at a museum.

Boeing has long embraced the power of redundancy to protect its jets and their passengers from a range of potential disruptions, from electrical faults to lightning strikes. The company typically uses two or even three separate components as fail-safes for crucial tasks to reduce the possibility of a disastrous failure. Its most advanced planes, for instance, have three flight computers that function independently, with each computer containing three different processors manufactured by different companies.

Boeing faced an unthinkable defection in the spring of 2011. American Airlines, an exclusive Boeing customer for more than a decade, was ready to place an order for hundreds of new, fuel-efficient jets from the world’s other major aircraft manufacturer, Airbus. The chief executive of American called Boeing’s leader, W. James McNerney Jr., to say a deal was close.

Boeing jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia lacked two safety features in their cockpits because the company charged extra to install them.

Federal Aviation Administration managers pushed its engineers to delegate wide responsibility for assessing the safety of the 737 MAX to Boeing itself. But safety engineers familiar with the documents shared details that show the analysis included crucial flaws.

Pilots repeatedly voiced safety concerns about the Boeing 737 Max 8 to federal authorities, with one captain calling the flight manual inadequate...