Popular Science6 days agoDish soap, hotel key cards, and confusion: Boeing FAA audit unearths dozens of issuesverified_publisherPopular Science - Mack DeGeurin'This won’t be back to business as usual...' Over the past two months, passengers traveling aboard Boeing aircrafts have endured a sudden, injury-inducing nose-dive, a mid-air wheel detachment, and an emergency door plug horrifyingly blasting open during a flight. Now, new details emerging from a …
Popular Science‘Alien’ signal was likely a very big truckverified_publisherPopular Science - Andrew PaulResearchers took a deeper look at seismic data taken during the 2014 fireball landing near Papua New Guinea. There’s no doubt an extremely bright fireball careened through the atmosphere north of Papua New Guinea on January 8, 2014. It’s also true that divers recovered materials at the bottom of the …
Popular ScienceWhat Boeing’s door-plug debacle says about the future of aviation safetyverified_publisherPopular Science - John Downer / MIT PressFor a flight to be imperiled by a simple and preventable manufacturing or maintenance error is an anomaly with ominous implications. This article was originally featured on MIT Press. On January 6, as Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, a Boeing 737 MAX 9, was climbing out of Portland, a large section of …
Popular ScienceDelta’s solar eclipse flight sold out, but your best bet to see it is still down hereverified_publisherPopular Science - Andrew PaulDon’t worry, there are plenty of places to still catch the April 8 event on the ground. Earlier this week, Delta Air Lines announced an extra flight for its April 8 schedule, timed specifically to provide passengers an aerial view of the total solar eclipse. But if you were still hoping to snag a …
Popular ScienceDid sonar finally uncover Amelia Earhart’s missing plane?verified_publisherPopular Science - Andrew PaulScans that depict what could be the famed pilot’s Lockheed 10-E Electra are still being evaluated. New deep sea sonar scans are reigniting interest in one of the 20th century’s most enduring mysteries—the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. For those in charge of maintaining the world’s largest Earhart …
Popular ScienceBoeing faces FAA audit after its 737 Max 9 plane’s door plug blew off mid-airverified_publisherPopular Science - Andrew PaulThe FAA announced it is ‘increasing oversight’ of the company, a week after the incident. The Federal Aviation Administration announced immediate “new and significant actions” to its increased oversight of Boeing’s aircraft manufacturing and production processes on Friday—one week after an Alaskan …