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Watts happening: behind the buzz about electric aircraft

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It’s an electrifying time for aviation. Or not, depending on whom you speak to. Proposals and prototypes for electric aircraft range from 18 rotor...

Airbus prepares to test tilt-rotor taxi

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Airbus will begin testing its Vahana personal electric aircraft in November, according to reports in technology publications. Vahana is a tilt wing electric air vehicle...

Seeing things

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An incident on an aircraft equipped with a synthetic vision system raises unsettling questions about technology, insidious failure and tunnel vision. Half past one, on...

Flight missed taxiway touchdown by 59 feet

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Details have emerged about the incident last month at San Francisco airport where an A320 airliner nearly landed on a taxiway that was occupied...

Fuel exhaustion brought down Cold War pilot

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It’s 40 years exactly since the death of a minor, but celebrated, cast member in the drama of the Cold War. Gary Powers survived...

Dancing with the STARs*

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Kreisha Ballantyne explores the relationship between regular public transport and general aviation aircraft in class G airspace. In early January 2011, I excitedly undertook a...

Suspected ‘drone’ was bad luck for bat

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The ‘drone strike’ widely reported to have taken place at Parafield airport, near Adelaide, has turned out to be a bat strike. DNA analysis by...

Listen to your aeroplane

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Inflight mechanical failure of aircraft and aircraft engines are very rare events. When failures do occur, they are not generally a bolt from the...

Getting smart: artificial intelligence and aviation

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It is on your smartphone right now, and is likely to be in your aircraft cockpit soon. Artificial intelligence (AI) could be the next...

Eye in the sky

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The inclusion of ADS-B technology in remotely piloted aircraft promises much for aviation safety and maintaining separation in the unmanned era. The biggest fear facing...