America’s Federal Aviation Agency signed an agreement with the state of Kansas’s department of transportation to establish a 770-nautical mile Kansas Supersonic Transportation Corridor for testing aircraft up to Mach 3, reports Aviation International News:
The agreement would provide a critical testing site for the emerging group of supersonic aircraft as civil supersonic flight remains banned over land. Flight testing for models…
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European Regulators Prepare For MAX To Return To Service In 2021
thegreatbob writes: Looks like the main additions over the FAA’s requirements are some additional pilot training requirements. The actual EASA statement can be found here. Confirms what the available information had been pointing to: the plane flies tolerably without its Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS), but does not meet certification criteria. [The MCAS was a software system installed on the Max…
‘Glitch in the Matrix’ as plane hovers motionless
Intriguing footage shows an airliner seemingly hovering motionless in the air – but is it just an optical illusion? This peculiar video was filmed fro… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337883/glitch-in-the-matrix-as-plane-hovers-motionless…
Weird ‘sky squid’ UFO filmed from airliner
New video footage has emerged showing a very strange aerial phenomenon moving through the clouds. While most UFO videos tend to show points of lights,… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337520/weird-sky-squid-ufo-filmed-from-airliner…
Software Bug In Bombardier Airliner Made Planes Turn the Wrong Way
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: A very specific software bug made airliners turn the wrong way if their pilots adjusted a pre-set altitude limit. The bug, discovered on Bombardier CRJ-200 aircraft fitted with Rockwell Collins Aerospace-made flight management systems (FMSes), led to airliners trying to follow certain missed approaches turning right instead of left — or vice…
Iran Plane Crash Wreckage Spotted from Space (Satellite Photos)
Sharp-eyed satellites have spotted debris from the Ukrainian airliner that went down in Iran early Wednesday morning (Jan. 8). Source: https://www.livescience.com/iran-plane-crash-ukranian-airlines-wreckage-satellite-photos.html