Austin airport ditches paper flight strips as FAA moves to modernize air traffic control

Austin is among the first U.S. airports to replace paper flight strips with a digital air traffic control system.

Why do flocks of birds swoop and swirl together in the sky? A biologist explains the science of murmurations

These coordinated movements of a flock of starlings follow no plan or leader. Scientists used to think the animals must ...

What Airbus A350 pilots actually do with the autopilot on a 14-hour flight

Learn why Airbus A350 pilots still hand-fly, how autopilot works, and why AF447 changed modern airline training forever.
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3D-printed F-14 Tomcat uses an FPGA recreation of the 'world’s first microprocessor'

Open source resources include code, documentation, and testbenches for all six original CADC chips.