Questions tagged [aviation]
Typically pertains to the study of aircraft. Can relate to the theories, design, construction, behavior and use of such craft.
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Did India lose a Rafale fighter jet during "Operation Sindoor" in May 2025?
A May 2025 article by Le Monde reported that India conducted an airstrike operation called "Operation Sindoor" against targets in Pakistan, in response to a terrorist attack in Kashmir. ...
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Did an aircraft have to turn back because a mother left her baby in the terminal?
In March of 2019 there were reports in the news that a Saudi airliner had to return to the airport when a mother reported to cabin crew that she had forgotten her baby in the terminal building. The ...
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Did Boeing debut the 787 Dreamliner in 2007 with plywood doors and daylight visible through the wheel-wells?
In the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver episode for 2024-03-03 (timestamped to relevant section), a clip is played from the video The Boeing 787: Broken Dreams | Al Jazeera Investigations, in which ...
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Were a woman and two teenagers refused boarding on a Southwest flight to accommodate a "person of size?"
There is a video making the rounds around the internet:
Marauder Magazine
The aftermath of Southwest Airlines's "person of size" policy! A mother and her daughter + friend are refused ...
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Does the "survivorship bias" airplane diagram come from World War II research on returning war planes?
This is a famous diagram. It is used extensively to demonstrate the concept of "Survivorship Bias".
Here is a typical example claim associated with this diagram:
In World War 2 the allies ...
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Did an AI-enabled drone attack the human operator in a simulation environment?
According to this news article on the Royal Aeronautical Society website:
...an AI-enabled drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and
destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the ...
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Did one of the 9/11 hijackers use a Conch Republic passport to enter the United States?
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Anderson, who resumed the running of the Conch Republic souvenir business and the official Conch Republic Days festival until his death in 2014, was subjected to an FBI inquiry after reports ...
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Is Elon Musk's jet trackable using only public data?
According to Elon Musk:
My plane is actually not trackable without using non-public data
This is a part of an ongoing controversy surrounding the bans on accounts posting the location of his private ...
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Does flying a small GA aircraft use less fuel than driving the same distance by car?
This is a notable claim by Friedrich Merz, head of the CDU party and a member of the German parliament:
„Ich bereue nicht, dass ich zur Hochzeit von Christian Lindner geflogen bin. Um es mal auf den ...
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Does aviation benefit from Daylight Savings Time?
In Europe, we have Daylight Saving Time, but a few years ago, the European Commission decided that must stop and instructed their members to choose a permanent time zone. For various reasons that hasn'...
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Are recent Southwest Airlines' operational problems caused by employees rejecting a vaccination mandate?
As Southwest Airlines faces a fourth day of canceled flights and other disruptions, claims have emerged -- largely in conservative media and social media circles -- that the company's problems are ...
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Is Argentina buying JF-17 Block-3 aircraft from Pakistan/China?
Is Argentina buying JF-17 aircraft?
Governo argentino reserva US$ 664 milhões para compra de caças JF-17 Thunder em 2022
According to the Aviacionline website, the draft budget for the fiscal year ...
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Is the Kabul evacuation "the largest airlift of people in history"?
As quoted here in an August 21 news piece:
“The President noted that this is the largest airlift of people in history and that it would not have been possible without the early support from Qatar to ...
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Did anyone ever do a round trip with a Concorde in a single day?
The Concorde was a supersonic passenger jet, with an average flight time around 3 hours and 30 minutes between London to New York. As can be seen here Complete List of Concorde Scheduled Flight ...
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Did the Wright brothers fly 105 times in 1904?
According to the Wright brothers, the two inventors flew 105 times in 1904 (near a streetcar station called Simms, situated at the outskirts of Dayton, Ohio).
O. Wright, “Letter to Carl Dienstbach”, ...
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