How Boeing Is Strategically Investing in a Visionary 39-Year-Old Engineer to Foster a Turnaround
How Boeing is quietly betting on a ‘brilliant’ 39-year old engineer—and setting the stage for a turnaround As an aeronautics grad student at MIT in the 2010s, Brian Yutko was obsessed. He’d work deep into the night mining “black box” data and destination codes buried in antiquated computer languages like Fortran for obscure flight stats. […]
Self-driving planes may soon be a reality in commercial aviation, but it could pose a potential safety concern
Fully autonomous planes could be coming to a flight near you—and that’s not a good thing Some of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers seem convinced that adding new technologies and increasing automation will allow airlines to reduce the number of pilots on the flight deck. For them, it is a question of when, not if. […]