“Many people told us that playing a flight simulator, using a certain type of console or the first game they played were the ...

Airbus pioneered the use of fly-by-wire (FBW) systems in commercial aviation with the launch of its successful Airbus A320 program in the late 1980s. The A320's fully digital FBW system was a first ...

Denmark's defence minister says Copenhagen is exploring options to acquire a fleet of Boeing P-8A maritime patrol aircraft, ...

The air traffic controller at Reagan National Airport spoke rapidly, directing the nightly choreography of planes with clipped instructions. “No delay,” he told the pilots of a jetliner preparing to ...

Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the Nobel Prizes; they honor "achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think." The unapologetically campy awards ...

That compulsive passport pat-down isn’t neurosis—it’s your superpower: conscientious, contingency-ready, ritual-driven calm ...

An Air Corsica flight was forced to circle for more than an hour when the airport's air traffic controller fell asleep while on duty.

From Toronto’s radar sectors to worldwide flight corridors, managing air traffic is a constant balancing act. Controllers guide aircraft along invisible highways in the sky, adjusting for storms that ...

In a fruit fly, nerve cells that detect limb movement are silenced when the insect walks or grooms. This on-off switch may help the nervous system to shift between two states: one helps keep the body ...