On January 29, 2025, a mid-air collision involving an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near DCA led to the loss of 67 lives. The incident highlights longstanding issues in modernizing avionics, specifically the lack of Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) technology, necessitating urgent reforms in funding and equipment modernization. (Cover Photo from theaviationist.com)
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A Call to Action via Modular Collaboration
Practice makes perfect, well, sort of. Unfortunately, very few technical professions take the word “practice” literally. I have always considered it uncomfortably necessary to think of a doctor as having a “practice”, yet am comforted by two things: first that the doctor is constantly learning and second that my situation has the potential to be slightly…
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