HoverAir has quietly unveiled two new follow-ups to its great X1 drone: the aptly named X1 Pro and X1 Pro Max. From what we can observe in this preview, the two devices offer multiple software updates and design improvements. However the extent of their upgrades differ between them. Their appearance …
Read More »The 737 MAX Delay Is Just One of Boeing’s Many Problems
The past 10 months have not been good for Boeing for all sorts of reasons—capped off in December by the failure of the company’s Starliner commercial crew vehicle to achieve the right orbit in its uncrewed debut. But the biggest of the company’s problems remains the 737 MAX, grounded since …
Read More »What Boeing’s 737 MAX Has to Do With Cars: Software
Software eating the world may sound good to tech mavens. But the now eight-year-old maxim has its serious downsides. Software defects have been blamed for Boeing 737-MAX 8 crashes in October and March, which killed 346 people. The aircraft has been grounded worldwide for three months, as investigators from Indonesia …
Read More »Boeing Plans to Fix the 737 MAX Jet With a Software Update
The investigation into the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX 8, which killed 157 people on Sunday, is still in its earliest stages, but already regulators around the world have grounded the Boeing jet. The American FAA issued its own grounding order today, noting that, based on the wreckage …
Read More »Boeing Issues Safety Warning After a Fatal 737 MAX Nosedive
Investigators are still working to discover exactly what went wrong with a Lion Air flight in Indonesia on Monday, October 29, when a Boeing 737 MAX plunged into the Java Sea, killing all 189 people onboard. But the initial findings have highlighted a possible sensor problem, and that has been …
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