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A pilot and researcher knows that airplanes are full of sensors – and finds a way onboard computers can use the data to detect equipment failure and tell pilots what’s a real emergency and what’s not.
Pilots get lots of assistance from automation as it is. In the future, they’ll get even more.
The Boeing 737 is the most produced commercial aeroplane in history – so what might have gone wrong?
The 737 Max is the best-selling airliner ever. But two have crashed in five months, killing 346, damaging Boeing’s future and raising questions about the increasing sophistication of cockpit technology.
MIT researchers have built ion thrusters with no moving parts pave the way for silent drones.
Ionic winds – charged particles flowing through the air – can move airplanes using only electricity; no propellers or jet engines needed. The scholar who led the project explains how it works.
Secondary radar is an important tool in the control of aircraft traffic, and helps make air travel safe. It was developed during dangerous times.
One of the biggest problems with single-pilot operations is that it’s very difficult to self-diagnose errors. That’s why checklists can help.
New research shows how smart aircraft can learn to use updrafts of warm air to stay in the sky.
Sound, color and special effects transformed the moviegoing experience. These inventions decidedly did not.
And will the aviation sector implement vital lessons learned from Icelandic disruption in 2010?
Airlines want to stretch their routes even longer with non-stop flights to almost anywhere in the world.
Major airports around the world will see more frequent flight restrictions in the coming decades because of increasingly common hot temperatures.
The most expensive defense program in world history has yielded a multi-role fighter plane that is an inelegant jack-of-all-trades, but master of none.
Oceanographers say they have the “credible new information” authorities need to resume the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The new Joint Strike Fighter will make its first appearance before an Australian crowd this weekend. But how close to being operational is the new fighter aircraft?
Most passengers have no idea how bad air travel is for the environment.
All over the country, novice drone pilots are launching their new Christmas presents skywards. But do they all know the rules? Here’s a primer.
Qantas’s new non-stop route from Perth to London might be a watershed for travel times between Australia and Europe. But super-long-haul routes won’t do much to cut aviation’s greenhouse emissions.
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Associate Professor/Discipline Leader Accident Investigation and Forensics, CQUniversity Australia
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UNSW Sydney
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Professor, School of Humanities, Griffith University
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Professor/Head of Aviation, CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Researcher, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
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Visiting Fellow, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor of Aviation and the Environment, Cranfield University
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Faculty of Law, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Coastal Oceanography, The University of Western Australia
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Neukom Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
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Professor of Human Factors, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia
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Lecturer, University of Stirling
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Lecturer in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Queen's University Belfast
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