The total duration of severe-or-greater clear air turbulence experienced by airplanes traveling across a major North Atlantic airplane route increased by 55% from 1979 to 2020. (Photo: Getty) Ladies ...
The 787 deals with turbulence better than any aircraft.
A University of Ottawa team has developed a new way to protect free-space quantum key distribution (QKD) from atmospheric turbulence, one of the main causes of distortion and errors when sending ...
Photo by WTL via Flickr. No frequent flyer is a stranger to turbulence. But what causes it, and how dangerous is it? Turbulence is the random, chaotic motion of air, caused by changes in air currents.
As a recent case on Singapore Airlines shows, sudden bumps can be fatal and, thanks to climate change, winds are only getting stronger Gareth Corfield is the Telegraph's Transport Correspondent. He ...
About 45 minutes prior to landing in Honolulu on Dec. 18, 2022, the pilots of Hawaiian Airlines Flight 35, a widebody Airbus A330, saw a white, plume-like cloud swiftly rising vertically ahead of them ...
Flying can feel scary, particularly in light of recent incidents where passengers were injured during episodes of severe turbulence. There are ways though, to conquer a fear of flying, even when ...
Turbulence is chaotic air movement caused by jet streams, mountains, storms, and other disturbances. Turbulence in flight is very common, but not necessarily dangerous, since planes are built for it.
Research shows that airplane turbulence could be increasing because of climate change and become three times as common by 2050 to 2080. There have been several cases of severe turbulence in recent ...
Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well. By Alexander Nazaryan Bjorn Birnir dreads an airplane seatmate asking what he does for a ...
Turbulence is a common part of flying, but severe turbulence that causes injuries, or death, is very rare. That's why the world has reacted in shock after a man died of a heart attack and 30 others ...
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