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 https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/elusive-plane-puzzled-european-air-defenses-then-its-crew-vanished
-== The giant hangar poised for an aviation revolution ==
-Airships could offer a much cleaner and quieter alternative for some aspects of the aviation market. In a former airship factory, a new generation are taking shape.
-Mark Piesing - 21st June 2022
-Sergey Brin turned internet search into one of the world’s most valuable businesses more than two decades ago. Now he intends to improve a technology which had its heyday long before he was born.
-Brin and his team of engineers' plan is to do this by reinventing a much older, if improved technology. A new generation of airships – the lighter-than-air craft that don't need conventional airports – will be built in a corner of Ohio which played a unique part in the history of aviation. What's more, if built they will be housed in one of America's most iconic structures, the Goodyear Airdock in Akron.
-Airships could help speed up the delivery of aid in disaster zones, carry air cargo much more cheaply than air freighters, and cut aviation emissions. However, similar projects in the past have struggled to overcome the complex engineering challenges involved, and have either run out of money, or left potential customers disillusioned.
-"Flying an airship is unlike flying any other aircraft because it’s lighter than air and floats, instead of sinks, when you put the power at idle," says Andrea Deyling, a pilot and director of airship operations of Brin’s airship company, LTA Research. "There’s also a sense of wonder people have when they see a lighter-than-air vehicle flying overhead. LTA Research is building a unique airship and I can't wait to get into the actual aircraft and fly it."
-https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220621-the-giant-hangar-poised-for-an-aviation-revolution
 == What it's like to land on the world's shortest commercial runway ==
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+== How to fix America's aviation system ==
+November 15, 2023 - Daniel Ackerman & Meghna Chakrabarti
+It’s been almost 15 years since the last deadly plane crash on a U.S. airline. But near misses are on the rise, up 25% in the past decade.
+That's a massive jump — caused by a sudden coalescing of several aviation issues that have lurked under the surface for years.
+One, the FAA’s required ground radar and control systems are antiquated.
+"They’re built on very old computers. Some are updated with floppy disks, and I kid you not," Paul Rinaldi, president emeritus of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, says.
+Two, air traffic controllers are aging out of the system and those still working are exhausted.
+"Most of the controls are working 60-hour work weeks," Rinaldi adds.
+Is it fixable?
+https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/11/15/how-to-fix-americas-aviation-system
+== Pilots Are Dying of Tiredness. Tech Can’t Save Them ==
+Extended hours after the pandemic have put pressure on pilots in India, who are working longer hours without rest, but monitoring technology to help curb overworking is glitchy and hard to find.
+Parni Ray - Sep 26, 2024 4:00 AM
+India’s $13.9 billion aviation industry—projected to cater to over 300 million domestically by 2030—is a ticking time bomb.
+This July, in the sweltering heat at the Delhi High Court, additional solicitor general Aishwarya Bhati announced that new rules on pilot duty and rest periods would not be implemented this year after all. Introduced by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in January, the rules were designed specifically to combat pilot fatigue. They were set to take effect in June, but were abruptly retracted. The hearing addressed a writ petition filed by the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP), seeking clarity on when the new norms would be enforced. The DGCA’s response followed its request to airline companies in April for a tentative implementation timeline.
+Concerns over pilot fatigue had been mounting in the months leading up to the announcement of the new Flight Duty Period, Flight Time Limitations, and Prescribed Rest Periods by the DGCA. The urgency deepened in November 2023 when a 37-year-old Air India pilot, Captain Himanil Kumar, collapsed at Delhi Airport while training to fly the airline's Boeing 777 fleet, and later died at the hospital. Kumar was the second Indian pilot to die on duty within three months; in August, Captain Manoj Subramanyam, a 40-year-old IndiGo pilot, suffered a fatal cardiac arrest just minutes before his flight from Nagpur.
+https://www.wired.com/story/pilots-are-dying-of-tiredness-tech-cant-save-them/
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 https://www.dw.com/en/germany-russia-flights-resume-after-air-traffic-suspension/a-57757954
+===== Costs =====
+== $83 Billion Wasted: Showing Up At The Airport 3 Hours Before Your Flight Is A System Failure No One’s Trying To Fix ==
+Gary Leff - July 30, 2025
+Flight delays get a lot of attention, and certainly mechanical and staffing issues are the fault of the airline. There’s also air traffic control which creates congestion – it isn’t just responsible for delays but also for longer flight times that get built into schedules. We don’t talk enough about that.
+Maybe the biggest failure in air travel is something we don’t talk about at all. How is it possible that people are being told to show up at the airport 2.5 to 3 hours before their flight, and that isn’t considered a failure of massive proportions?
+https://viewfromthewing.com/83-billion-wasted-showing-up-at-the-airport-3-hours-before-your-flight-is-a-system-failure-no-ones-trying-to-fix/
+== Time Theft at the Terminal ==
+Alex Tabarrok - August 3, 2025 at 7:12 am
+Travel expert Gary Leff on the billions in wasted time spent at airports:
+<blockquote>
+    Maybe the biggest failure in air travel is something we don’t talk about at all. How is it possible that people are being told to show up at the airport 2.5 to 3 hours before their flight, and that isn’t considered a failure of massive proportions?
+</blockquote>
+As Gary points out airport delay wipes out many technological advancements:
+<blockquote>
+    The lengthened times for showing up at the airport mean that it no longer even makes sense for many people to take shorter flights, but aircraft technology (electric, short and vertical takeoff) is changing and becoming far more viable in the coming years…The FAA is considering standards for vertiports but are we thinking creatively enough or will that conversation be too status quo-focused either because of regulator bias or because it’s entrenched interests most involved?
+    More and smaller airports are needed. Streamlined security, that doesn’t wait for nationwide universal rollout, is needed. We need runways and taxiways and air traffic capacity to increase throughput without stacking delays. Most of all, we need to avoid complacency that accepts the status quo as given.
+</blockquote>
+https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/08/time-theft-at-the-terminal.html
 ===== Flight Simulator =====
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 ====== Flight Data ======
+== National Airspace System Status ==
+Dashboard of airports and Aviation issues
+https://nasstatus.faa.gov/
 == Student who tracks Elon Musk's jet blasts sale of flight-tracking site he uses to keep tabs on aircraft ==
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 https://simpleflying.com/free-ads-b-receiver-flightradar24/
+== Flightradar24’s new GPS jamming map ==
+Ian Petchenik - Updated March 19, 2024
+We’re pleased to release our new GPS jamming map tool. The new map allows users to view areas of GPS jamming and interference around the world in an easy to understand visual format.
+The map uses are color coded overlay to indicate low (green) to high (red) levels of interference with global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). Often just referred to as GPS, there are actually multiple systems beside the US GPS constellation, such as Russia’s GLONASS, Europe’s Galileo, China’s BeiDou, and others.
+https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/gps-jamming-map/
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+====== GPS ======
+===== Jamming =====
+== GPS jammed on commercial flight over Atlantic for the first time ==
+Suspected cyber attack on transatlantic route leads to new fears of electronic warfare
+Benedict Smith, US Reporter - 20 June 2024 10:07pm
+A plane’s GPS was jammed on a commercial transatlantic route for the first time, raising fears thousands of other flights are at risk of being deliberately hacked.
+The flight from Madrid to Toronto is likely to have been deliberately targeted rather than being accidentally caught in the “usual spillover” of electronic warfare, one analyst said.
+The suspected cyber attack happened in the northeastern Atlantic when a pilot reported being blocked from ascending to a higher altitude because the GPS (global positioning system) of the aircraft above them had been jammed, according to the Institute for the Study of War think tank.
+The cause of the jamming has not yet been identified, but GPS jamming has been recently reported over Poland and the Baltic region and attributed to Russian electronic warfare.
+https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/20/gps-jammed-commercial-transatlantic-flight/
+====== History ======
+== Remembering what flying was like fifty years ago ==
+Fifty years ago, I soloed a Cessna 172.  The FAA Wright Brothers Awards notwithstanding, it wasn’t really fifty years ago – yes, 2023 – 1973 = 50 – but it was only 49 years ago, and I flew on the 49th anniversary of first solo. But let’s call it fifty.
+One October back in ’73, my instructor and I flew from Hanscom Field, outside Boston, to Lawrence, Massachusetts. Actually, I thought I was ready the lesson before, and I flew better on that lesson, but he didn’t solo me then.
+There was no pre-solo endorsement in my logbook, nor for the instrument and commercial flight tests the next year. None were required. In fact, none of my logbooks have any endorsements for any flight test.
+https://airfactsjournal.com/2024/03/remembering-what-flying-was-like-fifty-years-ago/
+March 4, 2024 - Ed Wischmeyer
 ====== Restricted Air Space ======