AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands — A common malfunction with Boeing radio altimeters, compounded by several errors by pilots, led to last year’s fatal crash by a Turkish Airlines plane as it dropped short ...

Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner confirms the firm has taken a "small" position in Paypal Holdings. The confirmation of Altimeter's new stake in Paypal comes one day after Josh Brown revealed he ...

Barometric altimeters are most common, and measure altitude above sea level using atmospheric pressure. Modern commercial ...

Here is a neat project I found at Matjaž Vidmar’s Website. The purpose of this project was to design an accurate radio altimeter with a dual-channel (quadrature) homodyne receiver. This new design ...

French investigation authority BEA believes the prevalence of ILS approaches has obscured an underlying vulnerability of aircraft to the risk of terrain collision arising from incorrect altimeter ...

The Federal Aviation Administration will give airlines another year to fix or replace airplane altimeters that can’t filter out cellular transmissions from outside their allotted frequencies. In a ...