The RTX Advanced Development and Engineering Center in Washington hosts an air traffic control tower simulator.
Credit: RTX Collins Aerospace
Two of the three pillars of the Trump administration’s ambitious plan to transform U.S. air traffic management are progressing, officials report, but the third—and most critical—remains an unfunded concept. A summit at U.S. Transportation Department headquarters in Washington on April 21 provided a...
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