The aircraft flown successfully by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk on Dec. 17, 1903, was called the "Wright Flyer." Yet its simple name and spartan design concealed the labor and intelligence ...

DENVER, Colorado — The aviation industry has long grappled with a pivotal challenge: how to make use of the vast amounts of data generated by aircraft, both for enhanced security and for deeper ...

For nearly 40 years, Army aviation experts have manned a helpdesk dedicated to aircraft safety. Soldiers and maintainers know it as the "2410 hotline" -- the place to turn for data corrections that ...

RDC Aviation, a tech and data services provider for the air transport industry, is a new customer for Spire Global’s aviation data. In a deal announced Tuesday, Spire will supply its satellite and ...

From the inner workings of an airport and the surrounding airspace to passenger data and the information going back and forth from the flight deck to the airline operations center, the connected ...

Airbus has launched a new aviation data platform in collaboration with Palantir Technologies – pioneers in big-data integration and advanced analytics. Skywise aims to become the single platform of ...

Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine, once said Peter Sondergaard, a tech strategist best known for his lea ...

In the past decade, the National Transportation Safety Board has recorded more than 1,100 aviation accidents and incidents each year. They rarely involve commercial aircraft. Since President Donald ...