Adverse weather can cause chaos, and air traffic control towers are so leanly staffed at many airports that a sick call can ...

Flying is dangerous, but modern software and hardware can take a basic technology that hasn't changed in 100 years and make it safe. A new company called Airhart Aeronautics in Long Beach, California, ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy aims to rapidly implement a "state-of-the-art" air traffic control system within three years, citing the current system's outdated technology, understaffing, ...

Emerging electromechanical actuation technologies for flight control systems will support more electric architecture. Credit: Collins Aerospace With a new age of electrically driven advanced air ...

What's wrong with the system? For starters, there's an acute shortage of air traffic controllers, who are responsible for directing about 45,000 flights carrying 2.9 million passengers every day. The ...

An ATC outage at Newark airport has drawn more attention to an outdated system. Plans for a new air traffic control system were announced Thursday by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy amid a ...