Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks DEF CON Industry binning old aircraft is an opportunity for aviation infosec Security10 Aug 2020 | 95
You wait ages for a mid-air collision spoofing attack and along come two at once: More boffins take a crack at hoodwinking TCAS Easy to fool safety system, in theory – in practice, well... Science30 Jun 2020 | 20
Fasten your seat belts: Brave Reg hack spends a week eating airline food grounded by coronavirus crash Special report Mmmm... microwaved protein chunks in spiced slurry – with rating by top analyst Bootnotes25 Jun 2020 | 104
EU aviation wonks give all-electric training aeroplane the green light – but noob pilots only have 50 mins before they have to land it So don't expect to go very far Bootnotes11 Jun 2020 | 93
Boeing brings back the 737 Max but also lays off thousands And still no sign of safe software or approval to fly On-Prem28 May 2020 | 116
Sweet TCAS! We can make airliners go up-diddly-up whenever we want, say infosec researchers Pen Test Partners probes auto collision avoidance system Security04 May 2020 | 41
Fancy that: Hacking airliner systems doesn't make them magically fall out of the sky Study finds most A320 pilots shrug, ignore dodgy systems and land safely Security04 Mar 2020 | 94
Deadly 737 Max jets no longer a Boeing concern – for now: Production suspended after biz runs out of parking space That kill-everyone-onboard flaw that was supposed to be fixed by now? Yep, still an issue Software17 Dec 2019 | 116
That was some of the best flying I've seen to date, right up to the part where you got hacked Raytheon has a punt at aviation security with bus software suite Security07 Oct 2019 | 36
Wake me up before you Gogo ... so I can jump out: Kenyan MP takes on aeroplane flatulence Further investigation suggests she may actually have a point Bootnotes15 Sep 2019 | 82
US military swoops into DEF CON seeking a few good hackers for debut aviation pwning village DEF CON Faulty F-15s, at-risk airbases and much more Security12 Aug 2019 | 18
Will that old Vulcan's engines run? Bluebird jet boat team turn to Cold War bomber Feature Static display jet last ran in 1983 Bootnotes02 Jul 2019 | 144
You're not Boeing to believe this, but... Another deadly 737 Max control bug found Sim uncovers code-triggered hardware failure that pitches jetliner nose down Software27 Jun 2019 | 227
Mystery GPS glitch grounds flights, leaves passengers in the bar The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system is not happy. Not happy at all Networks11 Jun 2019 | 57
Heathrow Airport drops £50m on CT scanners to help smooth passage through security checks Leave your lappy in the bag at every UK terminal from 2022 Bootnotes06 Jun 2019 | 42
The plane, it's 'splained, falls mainly without the brain: We chat to boffins who've found a way to disrupt landings using off-the-shelf radio kit Video DoS cyber-attacks are not just for websites, they may also be for aircraft ILS Security16 May 2019 | 35
I've had it with these mother-fscking slaps on this mother-fscking plane: Flight fight sparks legal brouhaha over mid-air co-ords Special report I slapped you in Nebraska, sunshine, not California Bootnotes17 Apr 2019 | 126
EU aren't kidding: Sky watchdog breathes life into mad air taxi ideas EASA's writing rules for them after 'a number of requests' Science16 Oct 2018 | 51
Boeing embraces Embraer to take off in regional jet market 100-seaters are now a duopoly, too, so please don’t mention the trade war Bootnotes06 Jul 2018 | 36
'Plane Hacker' Roberts: I put a network sniffer on my truck to see what it was sharing. Holy crap! Interview FBI botherer picks apart state of transport security Security04 Jul 2018 | 146
Please tighten your passwords and assume the brace position, says plane-tracking site Data breach at Flightradar24 scored some email addresses and hashed passwords Security21 Jun 2018 | 28
First A380 flown in anger to be broken up for parts Owner can’t find anyone to fly the thing profitably On-Prem12 Jun 2018 | 123
Airbus windscreen fell out at 32,000 feet Bits of flight deck sucked out of Sichuan Airlines A319, which landed safely with two injuries Bootnotes15 May 2018 | 140
Shining lasers at planes in the UK could now get you up to 5 years in jail Freshly passed law means intent is no longer important Security11 May 2018 | 92
Don’t fight automation software for control, just turn it off. FAST Report into fatal air accident shows machines can't be trusted to negotiate a crisis Science17 Apr 2018 | 118
Airbus plans beds in passenger plane cargo holds Poll Small problem: world faces big shortages of air freight capacity Science11 Apr 2018 | 134
Digital air traffic control upgrade puts potential delays on London flights Replacement for paper-pushing system 'very carefully phased' Legal06 Apr 2018 | 24
EUROCONTROL outage causes flight delays across Europe 5 hours downtime in 17 years is pretty good – but moaning about late planes trumps all On-Prem04 Apr 2018 | 34
Boeing ships its 10,000th 737 Airlines want another 4,600 of the single-aisle workhorse that debuted in 1967 Bootnotes15 Mar 2018 | 36
Long haul flights on a one-aisle plane? Airbus thinks you’re up for it 240-seat A321LR takes to the skies with 7,400km range On-Prem05 Feb 2018 | 138
Fancy coughing up for a £2,000 'nanodegree' in flying car design? Comment You can muck about with Python and flight sims at home. For free Software26 Jan 2018 | 63
NASA is sniffing jet fuel over Germany Ancient DC-8 will try to figure out if biofuel’s a sick burn for contrails. NOT chemtrails, OK? Science23 Jan 2018 | 88
A380 saved as Emirates orders another 20 planes, plus 16 options Airbus says it’ll keep building the behemoth of the skies into the 2030s On-Prem19 Jan 2018 | 45
Airbus warns it could quit A380 production Needs to make six to eight a year, predicts it can get back to 25 a year once airlines wake up On-Prem16 Jan 2018 | 141
'Sticky runway' closes Canadian airport Don't laugh: Goose Bay strip is where an A380 landed after its engine blew up in September Bootnotes10 Nov 2017 | 47
American upstart seeks hotshot guinea pig for Concorde-a-like airliner Ex-military supersonic daredevil? Come hither... Science07 Nov 2017 | 55
Aviation industry hits turbulence as Airbus buys into Bombardier’s new jetplanes Partners now have trade wars to fly around On-Prem17 Oct 2017 | 62
Drone smacks commercial passenger plane in Canada Everyone safe, except drone pilot who ignored local rules Legal16 Oct 2017 | 158
EasyJet: We'll have electric airliners within the next decade Blue-sky thinking... no, you shut up... Science27 Sep 2017 | 165
Oldest flying 747 finally grounded, 47 years after first flight Video Built in 1969, it ended its days as a testbed for engines Bootnotes24 Aug 2017 | 81
Inmarsat flings latest Wi-Fi-on-airliners satellite into orbit European Aviation Network connectivity project continues Science29 Jun 2017 | 13
Concorde without the cacophony: NASA thinks it's cracked quiet supersonic flight Sonic boom reduced to 'soft thump' by well-designed shockwaves Science27 Jun 2017 | 142
Boeing preps pilotless passenger flights – once it has solved the Sully problem, of course Avoid blue screens of blazing death, please Science09 Jun 2017 | 143
NASA brainboxes work on algorithms for 'safe' self-flying aircraft Where's my self-driving plane? Nowhere, it's a feasibility study* Science05 Jun 2017 | 30
Robot lands a 737 by hand, on a dare from DARPA Building a bot for the co-pilot's seat may be cheaper than adding automation software AI + ML17 May 2017 | 106
China's first large passenger jet makes maiden flight The C919 will compete with the 737 and A320, has already won 99 orders On-Prem05 May 2017 | 72
Boeing 737 turns 50 9,448 of world's most popular airliner have flown since April 9th, 1967. 4,500 more are on order. 168 were written off On-Prem10 Apr 2017 | 79
Boeing-backed US upstart reckons it'll be building electric airliners Let's hope they walk the walk better than they talk the talk Science06 Apr 2017 | 96
Aviation regulator flies in face of UK.gov ban, says electronics should be stowed in cabin. Duh If lithium batteries go boom in the hold, you're all screwed Legal06 Apr 2017 | 95
Boeing and Airbus fly new planes for first time Stretched 787 stretches its wings and A319neo Euro-hops. On-Prem03 Apr 2017 | 92
Did your in-flight entertainment widget suck? It's Panasonic's fault, claims software biz Seat-back systems deliberately cripple non-Pana code – lawsuit Personal Tech03 Mar 2017 | 54
Last Concorde completes last journey, at maybe Mach 0.02 VID Concorde 216 rolls into its very own hangar at Aerospace Bristol museum Bootnotes08 Feb 2017 | 72
Boeing's 747 to fly off the production line for the foreseeable future Big freighter order keeps the Jumbo Jet aloft and it was the internet wot won it On-Prem30 Jan 2017 | 50
Flight 666 lands safely in HEL on Friday the 13th 13-year-old aircraft left gate 13 and landed at 13:31 Bootnotes15 Jan 2017 | 65
Europe trials air-traffic-control-over-IP-and-satellite 'IRIS' plans to replace spoken instructions, works on four test flights Legal21 Dec 2016 | 40
MH370 hunters call for new search of extra 25,000km2 Drift experiments and new modelling suggests we've been looking in the wrong places Legal20 Dec 2016 | 53
New Euro-net will let you stream Snakes on a Plane on a *!#@ plane First flight test of combined satellite and LTE broadband made all the right conections Personal Tech29 Nov 2016 | 19
Airbus flies new plane for the first time A350-1000 takes off into competition with Boeing's 777 Bootnotes25 Nov 2016 | 98
Melbourne man arrested for broadcasting fake messages to pilots Commerical kit, not hacking, all that's needed. Security24 Nov 2016 | 13
World's shortest international flight: now just 21km in 7 minutes €40 St. Gallen-Altenrhein to Friedrichshafen hop takes you from Switzerland to Germany On-Prem04 Nov 2016 | 28
Possible reprieve for the venerable A-10 Warthog Report says supply chain is ramping up for refurb and electronics upgrade Legal26 Oct 2016 | 134
Drone idiots are still endangering real aircraft and breaking the rules Four airprox* reports made in just five days Science17 Oct 2016 | 91