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ドローン戦争の影響で墜落する民間航空機たち──原因はGPSジャミング
2026年5月、双発のプロペラ機「ビーチクラフトKing Air」を使った救急航空機が、ニューメキシコ州ロズウェルを飛び立ち、西にある町ルイドソへ向かった。現地では患者が搬送を待っていた。 パイロット2名と看護師2名を乗せたその飛行機のフライトは、難しいものになるはずはなかった。気温は20℃、天候は快晴。目的地までは約90kmで、通常なら長くても30分ほどの行程だ。 ところが、離陸してまもなくトラブルに見舞われた。その夜、ホワイトサンズ・ミサイル実験場では、米軍関係者がGPSジャミングの演習を実施していた。その影響で、King Airのパイロットだけでなく、周囲数百マイルを飛んでいた航空機も最新の航法システムを利用できなくなっていたのだ。 ふたりのパイロットは、普段ほとんど使わない旧式の航法装置に頼らざるを得なくなり、現在地を見失った末、山腹に激突した。生存者はいなかった。これは、GPSジャミングが一因となって民間機が墜落した、米国内では初めての事故となった。とはいえ、世界に目を向ければ、近年相次いでいる混乱のひとつにすぎない。...
How GPS jamming and drones are creating new threats for civilian aviation
Last May, a medevac plane crashed into the Capitan Mountains in New Mexico at night after a military GPS jamming exercise at the nearby White Sands Missile Range knocked out the plane’s GPS. It’s the first civilian plane crash in the U.S. linked to military GPS jamming. Jeff Wise, a science and aviation journalist, joins us to discuss how drones are posing a new threat to civilian aviation, even far from the battlefield. This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Wheels Up: Why So Many CEOs Become Pilots
Founders’ newest status symbol? Getting a pilot’s license to fly their own plane After graduating from high school in 2000, David Spector spent the summer working construction for his uncle in Maryland. He spent his earnings on a secret vice: flying lessons in a two-seat Cessna 152. But the dream didn’t last. “My parents caught me lying about where I’d go after work,” he recalls. Spector went on to earn degrees from Tulane and then Sloan, after which he made partner at Sequoia Capital.
Wheels Up: Why So Many CEOs Become Pilots
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A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield. THIS PAST MAY, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air medevac plane took off from Roswell, New Mexico, and headed west to the town of Ruidoso to pick up a patient. It shouldn’t have been a challenging flight for the two pilots and two nurses aboard. The temperature was 69 degrees; the sky was clear. The 60-mile journey normally takes a half hour, at most. But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble.
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
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A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
This past May, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air medevac plane took off from Roswell, New Mexico, and headed west to the town of Ruidoso to pick up a patient. It shouldn’t have been a challenging flight for the two pilots and two nurses aboard. The temperature was 69 degrees; the sky was clear. The 60-mile journey normally takes a half hour, at most. But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble.
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Eastern New Mexico University 1 day ago Former ENMU coaches bring new leadership to Silver and Ruidoso ahead of 2026 high school football season AOL - Jared Chester • 1d NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – High school football officially returns next week as teams across New Mexico begin practice for the 2026 season, and two familiar names from the collegiate ranks will be leading programs into a new era.
Love Story Got JFK Jr’s Final Flight Wrong in So Many Ways
Much of what’s shown in the final episode of Love Story is creative license, since there was no cockpit voice recording of what happened during the flight. Other details are simply inaccurate. The FX miniseriesLove Story, about the tempestuous relationship between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, is bracketed by the story of their final fatal flight to Martha’s Vineyard in 1999.
Love Story Got JFK Jr’s Final Flight Wrong in So Many Ways
1 hour ago “It’s tough for anybody to see themselves represented,” producer Brad Simpson said in a interview with Variety. One of the producers of “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette” is speaking out in response to actor Daryl Hannah’s scathing take on the smash television series. Earlier this …
Is ChatGPT Conscious?
This article was featured in New York's One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Krystal Velorien needed help. A 35-year-old marketing professional living in Ohio who had separated from her husband a few months before, she was working full time, taking care of her homebound mother, and homeschooling her 4- and 9-year-old children. She wondered if a digital personal assistant could help shoulder the workload, so she tried ChatGPT. As she used it, her interactions took an unexpected turn.
Six Books That Explain How Flying Really Works Original
The modern air-travel industry goes to great lengths to prevent passengers from having to think about what they’re doing. When everything goes right, the airlines’ practiced, cheerful funneling and cajoling, plus the snacks and in-seat entertainment, make the experience feel anodyne and efficient.
Is Elon Musk’s Starship Doomed?
Chinese authorities have begun constructing what will be the world's largest hydropower dam in Tibetan territory, in a project that has sparked concerns from India and Bangladesh. Chinese Premier Li Qiang presided over a ceremony marking the start of construction on the Yarlung Tsangpo river on …
The Debate Over the Air India Crash: Was It Suicide?
The release over the weekend of the preliminary report on last month's deadly crash of an Air India flight has stirred controversy in the aviation community with some asserting that the crash could have been caused only by pilot suicide.
Nathan Fielder Discusses the ‘Rehearsal’ Season-Two Finale
How Nathan Fielder channeled a longtime personal obsession into his most ambitious project yet. “At the beginning of making the series, I was looking at when they were first inventing the plane. And truly, if you look at the articles around that time, everyone’s like, ‘This is just comedy. This is not a serious thing. We can’t create a flying machine.
Experts Assess Nathan Fielder’s Ideas to Make Flying Safer
Nathan Fielder in The Rehearsal season-two premiere. The early moments of the season-two premiere of The Rehearsal are not the stuff of conventional comedy. The episode, titled “Gotta Have Fun,” opens on a captain and first officer in the cockpit of a commercial jet as they prepare to land at a socked-in airport. The mood is tense. An instrument is malfunctioning. Terse words are exchanged. Alarms go off. A mechanical voice calls out: “Too low! Terrain!” Farm fields appear out of the fog.
How to Make Home Solar & Storage the Gateway to a Sustainable Way of Life
Eat more vegetables. Get lots of exercise. Go to bed early. There are plenty of things we know can improve our lives — but how often do we actually do them? The same is true when it comes to owning a home. Many know that solar panels not only can significantly cut back on energy bills, they’re good for the environment and can boost home values, too. Take a look down any street, though, and you’ll see that plenty of people haven’t yet taken the plunge.
Is flying safe right now? How Trump and Elon Musk cutting federal workers will endanger aviation safety even more
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Nervous air travelers might be forgiven for feeling a little more anxious than usual since the start of the Trump administration. Only nine days in, a horrific midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter ended a 16-year streak without a fatal U.S. airline crash.
Is Flying Still Remarkably Safe? Yes. Is It About to Get Dramatically Less Safe? Also Yes.
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Nervous air travelers might be forgiven for feeling a little more anxious than usual since the start of the Trump administration. Only nine days in, a horrific midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter ended a 16-year streak without a fatal U.S. airline crash.
A Private Jet Full of Vegas Revelers Never Made It Home. Would They Have Been Safer Flying Commercial?
THEY CALLED HER Gypset. The name, a combination of gypsy and jet set, wasn’t one she’d come up with herself; she’d gotten it from the writer Julia Chaplin, who coined the term in her 2009 book, Gypset Style, to evoke the vibe of bright young things who waft from Sayulita to Tangier to Topanga Canyon, crafting eclectic necklaces and draping yurts with Hermès cashmere.
A Private Jet Full of Vegas Revelers Never Made It Home. Would They Have Been Safer Flying Commercial?
According to a new lawsuit, OJ Simpson’s son Justin Simpson is improperly living in the Las Vegas home where his father died. Simpson’s estate says the home was purchased in the son’s company's name to protect OJ's interest while shielding the property from creditors. NBC’s Liz Kreutz reports for …
Drone swarms are coming
Do you have a sneaking suspicion that an unmanned vehicle is hovering over your house? The odds that you’re right are growing fast. And that drone might just be bringing you a hamburger. In more than a dozen locations across the US, fleets of autonomous vehicles are zipping through the sky, summoned by customers seeking convenience and a touch of novelty.
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The Data Trove That Could Help Find MH370
The Platonic ideal of the scientific method is a dance of hypothesis and data. Scientists use hyptheses to explain data, then collect more data to see if their hypothesis is correct. If it’s not, they tweak their hypothesis or form a new one one, then collect more data to see if that fits. And on and on. But it’s not always like that. Sometimes, scientists collect a huge trove of data not really knowing what’s going to be found in it.
The Creepy Coincidences of the Superyacht Sinking
The sinking of tech billionaire Mike Lynch's yacht in a freak storm off the Sicilian coast last week certainly has to rank among the most bizarre fatal celebrity accidents in years.
"Most polluting, most unfair, and least necessary": Time is running out on the private jet industry
For fans of private-jet travel, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news first: the industry is thriving, as a wave of high-net-worth individuals have discovered the pleasures of being able to fly when you want, where you want, and how you want, no matter the price. Sales of private jets are booming, and charter companies are lavishing clients with add-ons that range from private chefs and in-flight wellness exercises to meetings with a Tibetan lama.
S2Ep10 Fighting Over Noise
In episode 6 we discussed a recent paper by Usama Kadri that examined whether the crash of MH370 should have been detected by a network of underwater microphones. Kadri argued that it should have been easily detected. The paper received a lot of attention in the mainstream press. Among the community of marine hydroacoustic researchers, it stirred consternation. In today’s episode Dr David Dall'Osto of the University of Washington explains his misgivings about Kadri's work.
The Anatomy of a Chariot
Jeff Wise July 15, 2024 at 11:00 AM·4 min read The Anatomy of a ChariotPeacock - Car and Driver "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The starting flag drops and a dozen vehicles surge forward. Thousands roar as the drivers careen down the straightaway, the frontrunners jostling for position at the head of the pack.
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The shipping industry turns to an old ally for transporting cargo: the sailboat
On a morning in May, an 78-year-old, 64-foot schooner named the Apollonia raised its sails and cast off from Hudson, New York. As it sailed south it was borne along the half-mile-wide river by a falling tide. The wind was not favorable. The Apollonia could make progress only by tacking at angles to the wind, a process that required three crew members to haul ropes pulling in the sails as the ship turned, before letting them out again once the ship reached its new heading.
Admirals' L'Heureux and Wall talk 2023-24 season, eyeing Calder Cup playoffs
The Admirals have had an exciting regular season. They set a team record with a 19-game win streak in January and February – the second longest in AHL history. They saw a large increase in attendance this year, averaging more than 6,000 fans per game including three 9,500-person sellouts. Even more exciting, the Calder Cup Playoffs kick off tomorrow where the Ads will face the Texas Stars.
Young Enterprising Society hopes to empower young people with new podcast
Khalif El-Amin is on a mission to empower young people in Milwaukee to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. To carry this out, El-Amin, cofounder of the Young Enterprising Society, or YES, has launched a new podcast, “Leef with the Legends,” featuring interviews with local and national legends from the worlds of sports, entertainment and business. YES is a group that helps young entrepreneurs launch and grow businesses.
Nate Vomhof: Behind the drone that makes Milwaukee shine
The other week, Milwaukee Uncut had Nate Vomhof, aka Drone Nate, on the podcast. While you may not be familiar with the name, chances are you’ve seen some of his incredible drone footage of Milwaukee. Nate’s story is unique because he didn’t aspire to be a drone videographer/photographer. In fact, he went to UWM to study engineering but only attended for a semester before dropping out. After working at Walgreens for some time, he decided to become a pharmacist and enrolled in pharmacy school.
Have We Already Found Alien Life?
An image from from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) showing thousands of galaxies. Photo: Space Telescope Science Institute/NASA, ESA, CSA, R. Maiolino (Uni Exciting rumors have been swirling in the halls of astrobiology. The James Webb Space Telescope, which has been scrutinizing the cosmos in unprecedented detail since its deployment in 2022, has been on a tear lately, and folks in the know say it might finally have detected life beyond Earth.
As Marquette heads to the Sweet Sixteen, a chat with Kam Jones & Stevie Mitchell
Before taking down Western Kentucky and Colorado to advance to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2013, Marquette’s Stevie Mitchell and Kam Jones stopped by the studio for an episode of Milwaukee Uncut. Before heading into the game against Western Kentucky, I asked the guys if it was difficult to stay in the moment with a potential big run ahead, and if they felt extra pressure from Marquette’s rabid fan base after a disappointing early exit as a 2-seed last year.
10 years after its disappearance, podcast answers the mystery of MH370
Today marks the 10th anniversary of aviation’s greatest mystery: the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. While the plane vanished from radar just outside Malaysian airspace on March 8, 2014, in the United States, the time difference means today is the day. For six months, I’ve published a weekly podcast with my co-host, OnMilwaukee President and founder Andy Tarnoff. We’re on our 25th episode now, and on this somber occasion, we have some important new evidence to share with you.
4 Steps Toward Sustainable Shopping
Your wallet is a powerful tool—and if you know how, you can use it to champion the environmental and positive societal impacts of combat climate. It comes down to understanding the things you’re buying: where they come from, how they’re grown or manufactured, and how they’re packaged and distributed. Choose wisely and you may even help nudge the economy toward long-term ecological sustainability. Here are a few steps you can take: Enrich Learn how a given brand’s products are made.
4 Steps Toward Sustainable Shopping
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4 Steps Toward Sustainable Shopping
Your wallet is a powerful tool — and if you know how, you can use it to champion the environmental and positive societal impacts of combat climate. It comes down to understanding the things you’re buying: where they come from, how they’re grown or manufactured and how they’re packaged and distributed. Choose wisely and you may even help nudge the economy toward long-term ecological sustainability. Here are a few steps you can take: Enrich Learn how a given brand’s products are made.
New York: Air Travel Is Not Ready for Electronic Warfare
Airway UM688 cuts an invisible path through the air from Samsun, Turkey, on the Black Sea coast down through Basra, Iraq, on the Persian Gulf and is used heavily by airliners traveling from Europe to the Gulf States. One stretch in particular, a 280-mile-long section in northeastern Iraq, has become a hot topic in pilot forums online. Planes passing through experience all kinds of strange system malfunctions.
Milverine Uncut: Beyond the streets with Milwaukee's superhero
One day in 2010, John Frank Hamann was approached by a stranger at Veterans Park who excitedly came running up to him with his cell phone. "You’re the Milverine!" the man said. Hamann was a combination of confused and amused. However, "Milverine" had a pretty nice ring. The jacked, power-walking construction worker had no idea that he had a dedicated Facebook page and Reddit thread where people tracked sightings of his whereabouts around the city.
Air Travel Is Not Ready for Electronic Warfare
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Airway UM688 cuts an invisible path through the air from Samsun, Turkey, on the Black Sea coast down through Basra, Iraq, on the Persian Gulf and is used heavily by airliners traveling from Europe to the Gulf States. One stretch in particular, a 280-mile-long section in northeastern Iraq, has become a hot topic in pilot forums online. Planes passing through experience all kinds of strange system malfunctions.
Bishop Hines was briefly pronounced dead in the '80s; he's inspired millions ever since
In this episode, we hear the transformative story behind Bishop Darrell Hines, a man who has experienced extraordinary events in his life. From being pronounced dead for 45 minutes, to finding love in the unlikeliest of places, to going on to speak all over the world, to founding a church and a community center on Milwaukee’s North Side, his journey is filled with moments that you won’t believe.
From "nope" to "ope": How Charlie Berens made it big
Charlie Berens is currently on tour, selling out venues across the country from Las Vegas to New York. He has millions of followers across social media channels, has major deals with the most iconic brands in the state and is beloved as our favorite Midwesterner. What if I told you that, if he hadn't hesitantly posted one video back in 2017 at age 30, none of this likely would have happened?
The Turn Back on Apple Podcasts
This week, the mystery deepens as, in the days after MH370’s disappearance, the Malaysian authorities first deny, then confirm that their military radar detected the missing 777 as it turned back from its planned route to Beijing just a few seconds after it passed the final waypoint in Malaysian airspace. The plane reversed course, flew back over the Malayan Peninsula, then flew up the middle of the Malacca Strait toward the northwest before disappearing again over the Andaman Sea.
OnMilwaukee
The latest New podcast dives into why MH370 still haunts us As an aviation journalist, I've been on the trail of MH370 for a long time time. So I was delighted when Andy, the publisher of OnMilwaukee, reached out to me with an offer to co-host a show about MH370. That show, "Deep Dive: MH370," debuts today.
New podcast dives into why MH370 still haunts us
It’s been called the greatest aviation mystery of all time, and starting today, a new podcast that I’m launching along with OnMilwaukee’s Andy Tarnoff, will dive right into it. In the early morning hours of March 8, 2014, an airliner vanished from Air Traffic Control screens over the South China Sea. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and its 239 passengers and crew were never seen again.
After Indictment, Could Trump Get Tossed Off the 2024 Ballot?
Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images Donald Trump’s indictment on charges relating to his attempt to overturn the election, which led to the January 6 insurrection, represents not just a major legal hazard for the former president but also a potential political risk. The Constitution states officeholders who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States are unable to hold office.
When Flying Private Kills
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images As it took off from Dillant-Hopkins Airport in Keene, New Hampshire, on the afternoon of March 3, the Bombardier Challenger 300 business jet provided an apt illustration of why private flying is so popular among those who can afford it.
The Truth About Long COVID Is Finally Emerging. It’s Not What We Thought. Original
Medical Examiner Even before 2020’s first horrific wave of COVID-19 deaths subsided, reports surfaced warning of a brutal second punch: Instead of recovering quickly after a mild infection, some people were suffering from symptoms that lingered or even intensified in the weeks and months that followed. The condition came to be called long COVID. In those early days, everything about it was uncertain, from what symptoms it caused to how long they’d last and how hard they would hit.
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