Flight Tech

For decades, the rhythm of air traffic control was defined by radio chatter – pilots and controllers speaking in clipped, precise phrases over crackling frequencies....

The human eye is remarkably capable, but it has limitations – limitations that become dangerous when you’re flying an aircraft at 150 knots toward a...

Picture this: a Boeing 787 approaching San Francisco International in dense fog. Visibility is near zero. Yet the pilots see the runway clearly – not...

In January 2024, United Airlines quietly retired its last Boeing 737-300, sending to the boneyard one of the final “steam gauge” cockpits in major U.S....

Every time you fly on a modern airliner, your life depends on a technology that seemed like science fiction when it was first proposed: fly-by-wire....

Those distinctive upturned tips you see on modern aircraft wings aren’t just aesthetic flourishes – they’re precision-engineered devices that save the airline industry over $2...

The aerodynamics engineers at Lufthansa Technik stared at their test results in 2022, hardly believing what they were seeing. The microscopic grooves they had applied...

Stand near any major airport today and you’ll notice something different from a decade ago – it’s quieter. Much quieter. The jet engines powering modern...

The business class cabin of 2025 looks nothing like its predecessor from just five years ago. Airlines are investing billions in what industry insiders call...

The Revolution in Inflight Connectivity At cruising altitude, where traditional cellular networks cannot reach, a technological revolution is unfolding. SpaceX’s Starlink Aviation service has fundamentally...