Ramping Up For ADS-B

Pilots who fly in Southern California’s busy airspace will soon be expected to follow new procedures, so the FAA has planned a… While we were preparing to shut down at a tie down spot at Henderson Airport, Las Vegas, ground control was directing a taxiing Piper …… In the Flytenow case, the FAA applied old thinking that doesn’t work in a world where technology moves at the speed of heat. They’ve moldered on my office shelf, unused, for more than a decade.

NASA photograph

This artist’s concept of NASA’s X-57 Maxwell aircraft shows the plane’s specially designed wing and 14 electric motors. NASA Aeronautics researchers will use the X-57 to demonstrate that electric propulsion can make planes quieter, more efficient and more environmentally friendly.

The Man Who’s Flown Everything

An hour before the doors of the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center opened to visitors, the vast, multi-level space was filled with a theatrical pre-curtain hush. Only a few docents were here, getting reacquainted with the 170-some air- and spacecraft on display, machines that had made some of the most important history of the last hundred years.