Boeing bids the 747 a final, ultimate, conclusive farewell Cargo airline Atlas Air takes delivery of 1,547th and last Queen of the Skies Offbeat01 Feb 2023 | 29
Aviation overhaul bill passes US House... for the third time Maybe it'll be different this year as clamors of 'I told you so' accompany the proposal Networks26 Jan 2023 | 16
US authorities release asylum seekers after leaking their data online In brief Also: US terrorist no-fly list found left on unsecured server, Russian dark web drug markets go to war Security23 Jan 2023 | 4
Massive outage grounded US flights because someone accidentally deleted a file Our lives are in your hands, and you have butterfingers? Software21 Jan 2023 | 41
Let me X-plane: Boeing R&D unit sheds rudder, ailerons, flaps for DARPA project US research agency paying $42.4m for working full-scale aircraft that ejects air out of its surfaces Offbeat18 Jan 2023 | 44
Surely you can't be serious: Airbus close to landing fully automated passenger jets DragonFly designed to land and taxi when the pilot is incapacitated, or just busy AI + ML13 Jan 2023 | 155
Flaming USB battery halts flight from Taiwan to Singapore And that’s why aviation authorities don’t allow power banks in checked luggage Personal Tech12 Jan 2023 | 32
FAA grounds all US departures after NOTAM goes down Updated 'Damaged database file' blamed, no evidence of cyberattack found, as air travel chaos continues Networks11 Jan 2023 | 55
Southwest promotes key staff right after that Christmas meltdown Union claims bosses are flying the biz into 'graveyard spiral' On-Prem10 Jan 2023 | 10
FAA sets 2024 deadline for preventing 5G crash landings US watchdog puts its foot down: Even a small possibility of interference means a fix is mandatory Networks10 Jan 2023 | 11
Southwest Airlines sued for failing to give prompt refunds after IT meltdown Asking us to 'submit a receipt for consideration' just doesn't cut it, claims would-be class action Software06 Jan 2023 | 15
Techies try to bypass damaged UPS, send 380V into air traffic system New Year's Day debacle strands thousands of passengers, attributed to decade-old tech On-Prem03 Jan 2023 | 116
Southwest Airlines blames IT breakdown for stranding holiday travelers Have they tried turning it off and back on again? Networks28 Dec 2022 | 77
Big Apple locals hire Russians to game New York's taxi system Scheme allegedly allowed taxi drivers to bypass airport waiting line for $10 fee Security20 Dec 2022 | 24
British Airways flights grounded due to glitch in flight planning app Flight computers down for 2 hours worldwide 'and no BA plane can file a flight plan? Seems not ideal' SaaS20 Dec 2022 | 16
Eurozone plans to formalize passenger data, improve security Central hub will make things smoother and safer but not store details Security20 Dec 2022 | 25
Musk bans private-plane-tracking @Elonjet on Twitter, threatens legal action Updated Say what you want – until Elon decides it affects him, too Offbeat15 Dec 2022 | 188
End of an era as the last 747 rolls off the production line Boeing … Boeing … gone Science08 Dec 2022 | 73
US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that'll fly the unfriendly skies 'Digital bomber' will bring 'peace through deterrence' Security03 Dec 2022 | 187
Rolls-Royce, EasyJet fire up first hydrogen-fueled jet engine Sustainable aviation will require something lighter than batteries Science29 Nov 2022 | 106
CT scanning tech could put an end to 100ml liquid limit on flights by 2024 Scrapping 'temporary' measure will slash queue times at airports... but don't ditch your baggie yet, say officials Systems24 Nov 2022 | 68
FAA wants pilots to be less dependent on computer autopilots US aviation advisory addresses concerns raised follow 2013 Asiana Airlines crash Software23 Nov 2022 | 84
FAA asks for vendor feedback on $10b tech contract But keen to avoid any mf bespoke software on the mf planes (and other hardware) Personal Tech22 Nov 2022 | 4
Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot This is despite a wealth of evidence showing the value of having two in the cockpit Personal Tech21 Nov 2022 | 164
China's first domestic single-aisle jet, the C919, scores 300 orders Thousands behind Airbus and Boeing, but the backlogs of western airliners might sweeten the deal Offbeat09 Nov 2022 | 73
SpaceX's in-flight Wi-Fi, Starlink Aviation, takes to the skies Oh c'mon! Was it too much to expect Skynet? Networks19 Oct 2022 | 10
Quit worrying about 5G C-band and crashing aircraft, US govt eggheads sigh Back off FAA, I'm a scientist Networks12 Oct 2022 | 13
Delta Air Lines throws $60m at flying taxi startup Joby Aviation Will fly passengers to and from city airports, if it ever takes off Offbeat12 Oct 2022 | 22
Viasat and Inmarsat $7.3b tie-up delayed over competition concerns The multibillion dollar question: Will it make in-flight Wi-Fi on planes more expensive? Networks07 Oct 2022 | 6
Larry Page's flying taxi startup Kittyhawk calls it a day More proof, if it were needed, that not everything connected to Google is gold Offbeat22 Sep 2022 | 18
Heart now pledges 30-seat hybrid electric commercial flights by 2028 We've heard something like this before ... Boss suggests earlier design wasn't that useful to industry Bootnotes16 Sep 2022 | 75
China's single aisle passenger jet – the C919 – likely to be certified next week Competes with the A320 and 737, which Airbus and Boeing can't build quickly enough to satisfy demand Offbeat14 Sep 2022 | 102
Australian wasps threaten another passenger plane, with help from COVID-19 A350 saved from peril by sharp-eyed ground crew Offbeat19 Aug 2022 | 108
US military fuels eVTOL research with $75m contract The renewed agreement more than doubles the DoD's deal with Joby Aviation Science12 Aug 2022 | 11
Delta Airlines takes flight with Amazon Web Services If you look out the window to your left, you'll see we've outsourced our infrastructure PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2022 | 3
5G C-band rollout at US airports slowed over radio altimeter safety fears Well, they did say from July, now they really mean from July 2023 Networks27 Jun 2022 | 10
Airbus flies new passenger airplane aimed at 'long, thin' routes The A321XLR assumes you're happy spending 11 hours in a single-aisle plane Offbeat17 Jun 2022 | 158
Ransomware grounds some flights at Indian budget airline SpiceJet Incident comes a week after 'SAP glitch' kept some planes on the taxiway Cyber-crime26 May 2022 | 5
FAA now says 5G airports may interfere with Boeing 737s 'Radio altimeters cannot be relied upon to function' – gulp Networks24 Feb 2022 | 66
US Navy in mad dash to salvage F-35C that fell off a carrier into South China Sea Where Britain leads, America follows Bootnotes28 Jan 2022 | 105
Watchdog clears 90 per cent of US commercial aircraft to land in low visibility at nation's 5G C-band airports Updated Don't start celebrating just yet if you own a Boeing 747-8, 747-8F, 777 Networks26 Jan 2022 | 28
'95% original' film star Spitfire could be yours for a mere £4.5m (or 0.05 Pogbas) Freshly overhauled, several careful owners Offbeat21 Jan 2022 | 52
Japan solves 5G airliner conundrum: Keep mobe masts 200m from airport approach paths. That's it (And maintain a guard band.) US airliners melt down as rest of world moves on Networks19 Jan 2022 | 70
5G frequencies won't interfere with airliners here, UK and EU aviation regulators say US (and Canadian) fears are uniquely Leftpondian, it seems Networks14 Jan 2022 | 44
50 US airports to be surrounded by 5G C-band-free zones AT&T and Verizon come to agreement with FAA on tech rollout Networks10 Jan 2022 | 28
Sun sets on superjumbo: Last Airbus A380 rolls off the production line It’s massive and fun to fly in, but expensive to run and not as nimble as rivals Offbeat17 Dec 2021 | 83
After deadly 737 Max crashes, damning whistleblower report reveals sidelined engineers, scarcity of expertise, more Not to mention the FAA delegating its watchdog duties to the actual aircraft manufacturers Software15 Dec 2021 | 181
Boeing 737 Max chief technical pilot charged with deceiving US aviation regulators over MCAS He hasn't got $2.5bn to hand to the DoJ, unlike his bosses Legal15 Oct 2021 | 149
Airline meal-sized £700k awarded by UK.gov for green aviation: That's for eco-tech rather than planes, mind Infrastructure to support lower-emission aircraft, is the hope Science30 Sep 2021 | 13
Report details how Airbus pilots saved the day when all three flight computers failed on landing Software 'enhancement' on the way after triple touchdown TITSUP Software06 Sep 2021 | 153
Japan's aerospace agency hooks up with Boeing to make planes quieter when they land Hope to address the noise of airflows over flaps and other parts as that can be louder than engines Science20 Aug 2021 | 76
‘Fasten your seat belts, raise your tray table, and disconnect your Bluetooth headsets from the entertainment unit’ United Airlines buys 200 planes — plans to give ’em ten inches of entertainment and a double dose of wireless Personal Tech30 Jun 2021 | 39
US aviation regulator warns of mid-air collision risk if Garmin TCAS boxes are not updated Updated Software fixes available, says FAA Security22 Apr 2021 | 23
Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children Passenger weight blunder led to wrong thrust used on takeoff, says watchdog Applications08 Apr 2021 | 322
Boeing confirms last 747 to roll off production line in 2022 Last four built will be freighters. And mighty freighters at that Science13 Jan 2021 | 25
Radio Frequency fingerprinting of aircraft ADS-B transmitters? Boffins reckon they've cracked it More data points needed, says academic, but technique could give governments a spoofin' bad headache Security10 Nov 2020 | 22
Mitsubishi grounds its attempt to crack the passenger jet market $9bn SpaceJet isn’t dead, but defence, mobility and electronics offer better short-term prospects Science02 Nov 2020 | 4
K8s on a plane! US Air Force slaps Googly container tech on yet another war machine to 'run advanced ML algorithms' And if that's not Skynet enough for ya, Britten-Norman is working to make the BN-2 Islander fly autonomously Security08 Oct 2020 | 17
Meet the new aviation insecurity, same as the old aviation insecurity: Next-gen ACAS X just as vulnerable to spoofing as its predecessor Faking an emergency collision alarm - just what you don't need over Heathrow Security06 Oct 2020 | 12
Singapore Airlines turns A380 into a restaurant, delivers plane food to homes As Australia's Qantas sells off old 747 drinks carts, fully loaded Bootnotes30 Sep 2020 | 34
Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent, say aviation safety bods Solution? A software update, natch Software24 Sep 2020 | 92
Did this airliner land in the North Sea? No. So what happened? El Reg probes flight tracker site oddity All is well. Unless you trust everything you see on the internet Networks18 Sep 2020 | 60