The US president says the army Black Hawk involved in Wednesday's collision was above the 200ft altitude limit for ...

What gear you bring largely depends on a few key factors: temperature, distance, and altitude. Lower temperatures ... in Vaseline are all you need for a high-quality fire starter.

With modern GPS, we often don’t think too hard about how to navigate, but GPS does not work very well on the open sea. That is why modern ships are equipped with technology such as radar and a ...

Officials say no survivors after a passenger jet crashed with an Army helicopter on approach to a Washington, D.C., airport. Here's what we know.

The lead plane maps out the route and instructs the air ... The conditions that increase fire risk — hot days, high wind, often mountainous areas — also make for turbulent flying conditions.

An Afghanistan veteran and a pilot who once served in the Navy were two of three soldiers killed in an Army helicopter’s ...

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From war zone risks to head-scratching tourists, the manipulation of the GPS navigation system by hackers (jamming and ...

250m high) about 6km to the WSW. These obstructions may hamper the detection of rainfall in these directions. The radar is well sited ... The radar's coverage, based on detecting echoes at an altitude ...

which often appear as small areas of high intensity rainfall. Because the ships are moving, they can not be automatically removed by the permanent echo filter. The Yarrawonga radar has a very good ...

The Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines passenger plane was flying too high, according to the ...

Procedures like go-arounds, diversions and holding patterns may be unnerving for flyers, but they're routine and meant to boost safety.