The Air Current

Boeing ratcheted up pressure on SPEEA, the union representing 17,000 engineers, scientists and technical workers, after its members rejected the largest wage increases offered in 40 years and voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike. In an Aug. 21 message

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player...Boeing is poised to rewrite the saga of its CST-100 Starliner, the seemingly star-crossed capsule that stranded two astronauts at the International Space Station for nine months. Thruster failures

Tennessee-based startup Whisper Aero last week performed the first crewed flights with its ultra-quiet electric ducted fans, demonstrating that an Aeriane Swift 3 glider powered by its eQ250 propulsors is no louder than the same aircraft in unpowered flig

It was a sunny morning in March in the skies northeast of Alpharetta, Georgia, and I was struggling to maintain my bank angle in slow flight. As our Cessna 172 slowed to 60 knots, my flight instructor advised me to limit my bank angle to 10 degrees. But t

Garmin and the FAA expected Autoland would be used following pilot incapacitation, an assumption that was overturned in December. What happens now?

Company completes first strategic restructuring since being spun off from Boeing

D.C. midair crash was the result of a complete collapse of the protections designed to keep aviation safe - and the institutions that design and maintain them

The fatal crash of Air India Flight 171 is the latest in a long series of accidents where cockpit video could have provided key evidence

India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) confirms earlier TAC reporting.

Data from the Dreamliner's black box points investigators towards improper, inadvertent or intentional pilot actions