The Federal Aviation Administration has published a final rule requiring most newly manufactured large aircraft in the United ...

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Friday finalized a rule to require cockpit voice recorders to retain 25 hours of data for all new ...

From the most iconic airplanes in aviation history to those among the forgotten passenger jets that once graced the skies, there's no denying that aircraft are incredible feats of engineering. These ...

Plans also call for the plane's avionics system to automatically convert all radio communications to text displayed on a cockpit screen. That way, the pilot will have a transcript of all the ...

It's a federal crime, so why are so many people shining lasers at cockpits? — -- After a spate of commercial planes flying over New York and New Jersey reported spotting lasers beamed toward ...