Hacker News with Generative AI: Aviation

Airbus A380 flew for 300 hours with meter-long tool left inside engine (theregister.com)
An Airbus A380 operated by Australian airline Qantas clocked over 290 hours of flight time despite a tool having been left inside one of its engines, according to a report from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.

Aviation, Aviation Safety, Qantas, Airbus A380

22 points by rntn 6 days ago | 10 comments

Flight School Pumps 100R Unleaded Avgas (aviationweek.com)
A California flight school has started fueling its Cessna 172 fleet with Swift Fuels’ 100R aviation gasoline, laying claim to being the first training center to use the new 100-octane unleaded avgas.

Aviation, Fuel, Training, Cessna

13 points by hindsightbias 7 days ago | 0 comments

Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code (flightglobal.com)
Investigators probing the serious UK air traffic control system failure in August last year have detailed the flightplan waypoint confusion which triggered the incident.

Aviation, Accidents, UK, Technology

265 points by basilesimon 7 days ago | 283 comments

Marine pilot loses command after ejecting from F-35B that kept flying (marinecorpstimes.com)
A pilot who ejected from a malfunctioning F-35B in heavy rain over South Carolina last year — which kept flying on autopilot for 64 nautical miles before crashing — was fired from his command of a prestigious squadron as a result of the mishap.

Military, Aviation, Accidents, F-35, Pilot Error

225 points by nafnlj 11 days ago | 485 comments

Boeing ends crippling strike as workers accept latest offer (bloomberg.com)
Boeing Co. workers voted to accept a new labor contract and end a strike that’s crippled jetliner production for 53 days, clearing a major obstacle for the US planemaker to restore its operations and finances.

Boeing, Labor, Strikes, Aviation, Business

57 points by toomuchtodo 16 days ago | 111 comments

Building an aircraft radar system in JavaScript (2022) (charliegerard.dev)
A few years ago, I came across this awesome talk by Thomas Watson in which he talks about how he built AirplaneJS, a web app that picks up ADS-B radio signals from airplanes and plots them in real time on a map in the browser.

JavaScript, Aviation, Software Development, Web Development, Radar

8 points by rmason 19 days ago | 1 comments

Bird wings inspire new approach to flight safety (engineering.princeton.edu)
Taking inspiration from bird feathers, Princeton engineers have found that adding rows of flaps to a remote-controlled aircraft’s wings improves flight performance and helps prevent stalling, a condition that can jeopardize a plane’s ability to stay aloft.

Aviation, Engineering, Biomimicry, Flight Safety

14 points by f1shy 20 days ago | 3 comments

Ex-SpaceX Engineer Is Building a Plane Anyone Can Fly in One Hour: Q&A (observer.com)
In 2020, Nikita Ermoshkin, then an engineer at SpaceX, decided to get a private pilot license so that he could take day trips from his home in Los Angeles to San Francisco to visit friends and his favorite burrito place. The experience led to a lightbulb moment: in the era of self-driving cars and avocado-peeling robots, why is flying an airplane still so complex?

Aviation, Technology, Startups, Innovation

6 points by T-A 21 days ago | 1 comments

Chinese plane designed to travel twice as fast as Concorde completes test flight (scmp.com)
A Chinese company says it has conducted a test flight of a prototype commercial transport plane that can travel at Mach 4 – or twice the speed of a Concorde.

Aviation, China, Technology, Supersonic Flight

6 points by okasaki 23 days ago | 0 comments

Universal Stainless, Set to Be Acquired, Behind Fatal Bell Boeing Osprey Crash (hntrbrk.com)
Universal Stainless, a key supplier for Boeing and the aerospace industry, is set to be acquired by Aperam S.A. in early 2025.

Acquisitions, Aerospace Industry, Manufacturing, Accidents, Aviation

14 points by impish9208 24 days ago | 0 comments

Are Boeing's problems beyond fixable? (arstechnica.com)
As Boeing’s latest chief executive, Kelly Ortberg’s job was never going to be easy. On Wednesday, it got harder still.

Aviation, Business, Boeing, Safety

3 points by lisper 24 days ago | 0 comments

Will the China cycle come for Airbus and Boeing? (construction-physics.com)
Noah Smith, author of the economics Substack Noahpinion, often refers to a common trajectory in Chinese manufacturing as the “China Cycle”1:

Manufacturing, China, Aviation, Economics

54 points by JumpCrisscross 25 days ago | 49 comments

Circular Runways (2017) (bbc.com)
Last month we published a video arguing the case for circular runways at airports, as part of a series called World Hacks. It took off and went viral.

Aviation, Design, Engineering, Sustainability, Viral Content

4 points by belter 26 days ago | 0 comments

Boeing 787s must be reset every 51 days or 'misleading data' is shown (2020) (theregister.com)
The US Federal Aviation Administration has ordered Boeing 787 operators to switch their aircraft off and on every 51 days to prevent what it called "several potentially catastrophic failure scenarios" – including the crashing of onboard network switches.

Aviation, Safety, Boeing, Technology, Regulation

205 points by jakey_bakey 28 days ago | 223 comments

E6B (wikipedia.org)
The E6B flight computer is a form of circular slide rule used in aviation. It is an instance of an analog calculating device still being used in the 21st century.

Aviation, Analog Computing, History

16 points by vinnyglennon 28 days ago | 0 comments

Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, Musk (bloomberg.com)
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has removed several accounts across Threads and Instagram that were used to track celebrities’ private jets, including the jet owned by its Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, citing a risk of “physical harm.”

Privacy, Social Media, Celebrities, Aviation

269 points by JumpCrisscross 30 days ago | 250 comments

Map of drone fly zones in Canada (canada.ca)
Announcement: Nav Canada’s Nav Drone App is now on-line!

Drones, Canada, Aviation, Technology, Government

5 points by gregsadetsky 30 days ago | 0 comments

World-First Starlink Service on Boeing 777 Launched by Qatar Airways (smartwithpoints.co.uk)
Qatar Airways has just made aviation history by launching the world's first Starlink-equipped Boeing 777 flight.

Aviation, Technology, Qatar Airways, Starlink

37 points by jackculpan 30 days ago | 71 comments

India's airline industry in chaos after 90 hoax bomb threats in a week (theguardian.com)
A reported 90 hoax bomb threats have been made against Indian airlines in the past week, provoking international travel chaos as planes were grounded, diverted and flown to safety by fighter jet escorts.

India, Aviation, Security, Terrorism, Hoaxes

70 points by cyberlimerence 31 days ago | 67 comments

Why the B-52 is outliving newer bombers [video] (youtube.com)

Military, Aviation, Technology, History

26 points by jasoncartwright 33 days ago | 8 comments

TCAS averts possible head-on collision in Austin (flightradar24.com)
On 16 October, an American Airlines 737 (N800NN) and Cessna R182 Skylane (N738PG) came dangerously close as the airliner was preparing to land in Austin.

Aviation, Accidents, Safety, Texas

50 points by philip1209 34 days ago | 49 comments

American Airlines Flight Attendants Just Won Boarding Pay (jacobin.com)
Flight attendants typically aren’t paid during boarding time. Earlier this month, after a three-year contract campaign and a credible strike threat, flight attendants at American Airlines became the first to win boarding pay.

Labor Unions, Aviation, Travel, Airlines

7 points by PaulHoule 34 days ago | 2 comments

Federal probe targets airline frequent flyer programs (cnn.com)

Federal Agencies, Aviation, Consumer Issues, Investigations

15 points by colinprince 35 days ago | 1 comments

Boeing's Breakup Is Not If, but How and When (aviationweek.com)
Boeing’s notification Oct. 15 that it could raise up to $25 billion in fresh funds by selling stock or debt, as well as a new, second $10 billion credit line from major investment banks, can be read many ways.

Boeing, Finance, Business, Aviation

6 points by hindsightbias 35 days ago | 0 comments

Tax on Europe's frequent flyers could raise €64B a year – study (theguardian.com)
A “jet-setter” tax on Europe’s frequent flyers could slow global heating and raise €64bn (£54bn) a year at no extra cost to most people, a report has found.

Taxes, Climate Change, Aviation, Europe

7 points by nmridul 35 days ago | 2 comments

Russia suspected of planting device on plane that caused UK warehouse fire (theguardian.com)
Counter-terrorism police are investigating whether Russian spies planted an incendiary device on a plane to Britain that later caught fire at a DHL warehouse in Birmingham, the Guardian can reveal.

Russia, Counter-terrorism, Aviation, International Relations, Fire

6 points by mykowebhn 36 days ago | 0 comments

Su-34 Supersonic Fighter-Bomber Shot Down by Ukrainian F-16 (newsweek.com)
One of Moscow's fighter jets has been shot down by Ukrainian forces, according to a military blogger with links to the Russian air force.

War, Aviation, Ukraine, Russia

8 points by belter 40 days ago | 1 comments

Boeing to cut 17,000 jobs, or 10% of its global workforce (ctvnews.ca)
Boeing will cut 17,000 jobs -- 10 per cent of its global workforce -- delay first deliveries of its 777X jet by a year and record US$5 billion in losses in the third quarter, as the U.S. planemaker continues to spiral during a month-long strike.

Boeing, Layoffs, Aviation, Business, Labor

15 points by thunderbong 40 days ago | 0 comments

Boeing to lay off roughly 10% of workforce (cnn.com)

Boeing, Layoffs, Workforce, Business, Aviation

18 points by bluedino 40 days ago | 7 comments

Months Before Ethiopian 737 Crash, Boeing Turned Aside Carrier's Questions (nytimes.com)
Months Before Ethiopian Crash, Boeing Turned Aside Carrier’s Questions

Aviation, Boeing, Ethiopia, Accidents, Safety

7 points by whycome 42 days ago | 1 comments