If you are planning a flight to the USA in the near future, you should know this: Without Windows 95 and floppy discs, many ...

While the vintage systems may have inadvertently protected air traffic control from widespread outages like the CrowdStrike ...

The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is finally pulling the plug on its outdated air traffic control systems. How ...

FAA finally ditches floppy disks and Windows 95 from air traffic control in massive $billions upgrade. What this means for ...

According to the acting head of the FAA, air traffic control will also stop using paper printouts and Windows 95.

"The whole idea is to replace the system. No more floppy disks or paper strips," Rocheleau told the House Appropriations Committee during a hearing on Wednesday ...

Not to worry nervous flyers, FAA vows to banish archaic systems... in a few years The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ...

Legacy aircraft like the Boeing 747-400 still rely on floppy disks to update critical navigation data, due to costly and complex certification requirements for ...

“For years, A4A has been sounding the alarm about ATC staffing shortages and antiquated equipment, such as copper wires and floppy disks,” A4A stated in the release. “Given the challenges ...

Currently, towers are run with technology that was already aging in the late 1980s, featuring floppy disks, paper strips and copper wires. We are also short-staffed by nearly 3,000 air traffic ...

What most of us didn’t know is that one of the nation’s busiest airports is dangerously understaffed and operating an air traffic control system comprised of copper wires, floppy disks and one ...