Tag: Aircraft safety
Grounded: what’s behind Boeing’s production shutdown of MAX aircraft
Michael Lueck, Auckland University of Technology
Boeing has announced it will halt production of the beleaguered B737-MAX series from January. Boeing’s announcement this week follows...
Too many airplane systems rely on too few sensors
Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The apparent connection between fatal airplane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia centers around the failure of a single sensor. I...
Automated control system caused Ethiopia crash, flight data suggests
Timothy Takahashi, Arizona State University
Emerging evidence from the recent crash in Ethiopia suggests that malfunctioning automatic control systems overwhelmed the crew and doomed the...
Your next pilot could be drone software
Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University
Would you get on a plane that didn’t have a human pilot in the cockpit? Half of air travelers...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
