Forty years after a plane crash in Montgomery, the cause of the calamity that killed four Chicago FBI agents remains a mystery. In this Q&A, Cincinnati-area resident Ed Woods, who researched the crash ...

The head of the Dutch Safety Authority has announced that last week’s Turkish Airlines plane crash in Amsterdam may have been caused by a faulty altimeter. Dutch authorities have made an announcement ...

Old airplane altimeters are now the main focus of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The aviation department announced that it is urging airlines to replace their aircraft's old altimeters ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Federal Aviation Administration released updated plans on its 5G connectivity deployment on Friday, stating that several ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global aircraft altimeter and pitot tube market is expected to grow at a CAGR of above 4% during the period 2018-2022, according to a new market research study by ...

Pressure altitude is the height of an aircraft above a theoretical standard datum plane, corresponding to an altimeter setting of 29.92 inHg, and is used as a baseline for weather-related calculations ...

MIKE MOSS SAYS: Khalid, I'm not sure I entirely follow the question as written, but an aircraft sitting on the ground at an airport with field elevation 2000 feet above mean sea level will have a ...

There’s a strange synchronicity in the projects we see here at Hackaday, where different people come up with strikingly similar stuff at nearly the same time. We’re not sure why this is, but it’s ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are warning that 5G wireless operations could affect radio altimeters in most Boeing 737 aircraft and impact crew workload and airplane landings, ...