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How Google & Other Flight-Tracking Apps Know Exactly Where A Plane Is At Any Time

For amateur aviation enthusiasts, there's no greater thrill than watching an airplane steer on the ground and then take to the air. It's quite the feat of physics and engineering to get an aircraft to ...
UPI

Pelosi's Taiwan flight most-tracked plane in radar app's history

Aug. 3 (UPI) --House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's flight to Taiwan on Tuesday was the most-tracked plane in the history of tracking service Flightradar24. By the time it landed in Taipei, the U.S. Air Force ...
Flying

6 Practical Aviation Apps

If you started flying before the iPad was introduced in 2010 or, even longer ago, before the early 2000s, when aviation-specific portable-flight-bag tablets first entered the market, you remember the ...
The Aviationist

B-52 Radar Modernization Nears Flight Testing

The AN/APQ-188 radar upgrade for the B-52 is finally preparing to begin flight testing, following years of delays, cost overruns, and a program review. The U.S. Air Force’s long-running effort to ...
CNN

Flights resume after radar and communication outages hit air traffic controllers in Dallas

A telecommunication outage caused Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers in Dallas to lose radar and some communications Friday afternoon, leading to flights being stopped at the area ...