The Flydubai captain who was stabbed by his copilot has described how he fought to save the airplane with nearly 180 passengers. “Even with my eyes closed, I know exactly what is happening in the cockpit. When I was lying on the floor, I could sense the aircraft was going down,” Smit Machchhar told Indian
Visitors traveling across Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay earlier this month may have seen a strange-looking boat with wings and a whale-like tail floating in the estuary’s calm late-summer waters. Eventually, the vessel’s 12 electric propellers, six on each side, spun up and sent it churning forward. The “boat” advanced across the bay, faster and faster,
The United States isn’t the only nation itching to restart supersonic passenger air travel. Earlier this month, China announced its TMS-10 experimental demonstrator plane has entered the final assembly phase and is on schedule to conduct its first test flight by the end of the year. The fullscale aircraft engineered by Tianmushan Laboratory in collaboration
A construction mishap affecting air traffic control equipment in New Jersey on Monday caused chaos for travelers flying through the Northeast. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the equipment outage was caused after a construction crew “accidentally cut into a fiber line.” In an update shared around 6 p.m., Duffy said the lines had been fixed
A single-engine prop Cessna Caravan has reportedly become the first airplane to autonomously complete a cross-continental flight across the United States. Overseen by the aeronautics company Joby, the retrofitted aircraft began its challenge in Concord, California, on September 7, ultimately traveling 3,199 miles with no assistance from its onboard human safety pilot. However, the plane
A new federal program to test the feasibility of electric, hybrid-electric, and autonomous aircraft kicks off today in Texas — before the rules governing this new technology have even been finalized. For the next week, these companies will conduct test flights demonstrating future routes between cities and regional airports, including Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
