A new sofware will now provide aspiring pilots the chance to do their groundwork before flying

Scientists in the optics and laser technology department of British Aerospace's Sowerby Research Centre at Filton in South UK are planning to develop 'smart' aircraft wings that look after

Computers have played second fiddle to analogue techniques in safety critical systems and though airlines are switching to fly by wire technology, an unknown safety record is their major worry

Dutch greens decry the expansion of Schiphol airport and jam the main runway, ready to face trial for high crime

The world is soon to herald the revived version of a flying machine called the airship which had been relegated to the annals of history. These German crafted machines are being lauded as a new form of air transport

Here is good news for the Russy Modi types -high-powered executives who often pilot their own planes: a parachute for the plane. It will be the main safety feature of Cirrus Design

Engineers are hot on the heels of a new supersonic commercial aircraft, while the untiring wings of the good old Concorde receive ageing monitors

THERE seems to be no limit to the harm done on the environment in the name of development., At least one lakh trees - mainly coconut - are proposed to be felled to clear the ground for a proposed

The glamour of the profession apart, airline crew face a heightened risk of cancer. Researchers of the Finnish Cancer Registry conducted a study of the extent to which airline staff

SRI International, the US contrad research organisation - former known as Stanford Reseai 2 tute - has devised a hardensi luggage container to mitigate ON effect of a terrorist bomb