How Satellite-Based Aircraft Tracking Will Revolutionize Flying
Aireon, the newly operational space-based aircraft tracking network could be the most important development in locating planes since radar was invented in World War II.
North Atlantic Tracks: Invisible Highways in the Sky
Captain James Basnett is at the controls of a British Airways Airbus A380 mega-jet, serenely cruising far above the stormy North Atlantic. More than 450 passengers are enjoying the inflight service, watching a movie or just sleeping away the overnight flight from Boston to London. Comfortably cocooned in the technological marvel that is a modern airliner, the passengers are blissfully unaware that their plane is just one of hundreds in a massive aerial armada heading to Europe from North America.