Day: September 3, 2010

  • Fully-Automatic Execution of Critical Manoeuvres in Airline Flying

    David Learmount’s semi-annual review of commercial air accidents has just appeared in Flight International (3-9 August, p34). There were three accidents to high-performance large commercial passenger jets: (1) a Ethiopian Airways Boeing 737-800 took off from Beirut over the sea at night and ended up in the ocean (25 January); (2) an Afriqiyah Airways Airbus…