Tag: Aviation
JetBlue merger with Spirit not cleared for takeoff – why Justice...
Joe Mazur, Purdue University
The U.S. Department of Justice has intervened to block a proposed deal that would see...
The future of flight in a net-zero-carbon world: 9 scenarios, lots...
Candelaria Bergero, University of California, Irvine and Steve Davis, University of California, Irvine
Several major airlines have pledged to...
What is the FAA’s NOTAM? An aviation expert explains how the...
What is NOTAM?
Aviation is full of acronyms, and Notice to Air Missions, or NOTAM, is one acronym that...
Electric planes are coming: Short-hop regional flights could be running on...
Gökçin Çınar, University of Michigan
Electric planes might seem futuristic, but they aren’t that far off, at least for...
How greater diversity in the cockpit could help airlines avoid a...
Shannon McLoughlin Morrison, The Ohio State University
Before the new coronavirus hit, the airline industry was bracing for a severe pilot shortage. But just as...
The Defense Department is worried about climate change – and also...
Neta C. Crawford, Boston University
Scientists and security analysts have warned for more than a decade that global warming is a potential national security concern.
They...
Simply elegant, Morse code marks 175 years and counting
Eddie King, University of South Carolina
The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to...
50 years of the Boeing 747: How the ‘queen of the...
Janet Bednarek, University of Dayton
On Sept. 30, 1968, the first Boeing 747 rolled out of its custom-built assembly plant in Everett, Washington. From the...
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...
