U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy detailed his U.S. ATC overhaul plan on May 8 amid radar and communications outages that temporarily affected flights at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport.
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Nearly 70 years ago, a shift was taking place in U.S. airspace: Aircraft were faster, and fleet sizes were growing, but air traffic control technologies were failing to keep up. As modern fleets had “badly outrun the mechanical and administrative machinery of air traffic control,” an April 1958...
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