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Cleared Direct with Vector - Radio Hangar

by Vector

Aviation technology deep dives: avionics, electric and hybrid aircraft, eVTOL, spaceflight crossover, and the engineering that shapes modern flying. From Radio Hangar, 24/7 aviation talk radio.

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The GOES-R Weather Satellites, the Geostationary Lightning Mapper, and Why Five-Minute Satellite Imagery Sees the Storm Before the Radar Does

The GOES-R Weather Satellites, the Geostationary Lightning Mapper, and Why Five-Minute Satellite Imagery Sees the Storm Before the Radar Does. With Vector on Radio Hangar

Oct 3
12 min

Category Three Autoland, the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Bedford, and the Triplex Redundancy Architecture That Has Been Landing Airliners Blind Since the Trident Era

Category Three Autoland, the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Bedford, and the Triplex Redundancy Architecture That Has Been Landing Airliners Blind Since the Trident Era.

Oct 3
15 min

The Spoofed Position, GPS Interference Over the Middle East and Baltic, and the ADS-B Integrity Problem Nobody Built a Fix For Yet

The Spoofed Position, GPS Interference Over the Middle East and Baltic, and the ADS-B Integrity Problem Nobody Built a Fix For Yet. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

Oct 3
14 min

SpaceShipOne, Burt Rutan's Feathering Wing, and the Desert Engineering That Solved Reentry Without a Heat Shield

SpaceShipOne, Burt Rutan's Feathering Wing, and the Desert Engineering That Solved Reentry Without a Heat Shield. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

Oct 3
13 min

Lilium, the Electric Jet That Raised One Point Two Billion Dollars, and What Its Collapse Teaches Every Pilot About the Distance Between a Prototype and a Certified Aircraft

Lilium, the Electric Jet That Raised One Point Two Billion Dollars, and What Its Collapse Teaches Every Pilot About the Distance Between a Prototype and a Certified Aircr

Oct 3
13 min

REGENT Craft, the Seaglider That Flies Nine Feet Off the Water, and the Maritime Certification Gap That Could Get It to Market Before Any eVTOL

REGENT Craft, the Seaglider That Flies Nine Feet Off the Water, and the Maritime Certification Gap That Could Get It to Market Before Any eVTOL. With Vector on Radio Hang

Oct 3
13 min

Joby Aviation's S Four, the Six-Rotor Electric Air Taxi from Santa Cruz, and the FAA Certification Marathon Nobody Warned Them About

Joby Aviation's S Four, the Six-Rotor Electric Air Taxi from Santa Cruz, and the FAA Certification Marathon Nobody Warned Them About. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

Oct 3
14 min

ZeroAvia, the ZA-600 Hydrogen-Electric Powertrain, and the Dornier Two Twenty-Eight Test Flights Quietly Rewriting the Rulebook for Regional Aviation

ZeroAvia, the ZA-600 Hydrogen-Electric Powertrain, and the Dornier Two Twenty-Eight Test Flights Quietly Rewriting the Rulebook for Regional Aviation. With Vector on Radi

Oct 3
15 min

Beta Technologies, the ALIA Fixed-Wing eVTOL, and the Vermont Startup That Built the Charging Network Before Anyone Else Thought to Ask

Beta Technologies, the ALIA Fixed-Wing eVTOL, and the Vermont Startup That Built the Charging Network Before Anyone Else Thought to Ask. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

Oct 2
14 min

WAAS, the Wide Area Augmentation System, and the Four Thousand LPV Approaches That Gave Precision Capability to Airports That Never Had an ILS

WAAS, the Wide Area Augmentation System, and the Four Thousand LPV Approaches That Gave Precision Capability to Airports That Never Had an ILS. With Vector on Radio Hanga

Oct 2
14 min

The FAA LADD Program, the Gulfstreams That Vanish from Public Tracking While Still Broadcasting, and the Safety Research Blind Spot Nobody Wanted to Admit

The FAA LADD Program, the Gulfstreams That Vanish from Public Tracking While Still Broadcasting, and the Safety Research Blind Spot Nobody Wanted to Admit. With Vector on

Oct 2
13 min

The Boeing X-37B, the Orbital Test Vehicle That Lands on a Runway, and the Autonomous Space Plane That Has Logged More Than Twenty-Two Hundred Days in Orbit Without Telling Anyone What It Was Doing Up There

The Boeing X-37B, the Orbital Test Vehicle That Lands on a Runway, and the Autonomous Space Plane That Has Logged More Than Twenty-Two Hundred Days in Orbit Without Telli

Oct 2
16 min

Boom Supersonic's Overture, the Symphony Engine That Rolls-Royce Walked Away From, and the Twenty-Three-Year Gap in Commercial Supersonic Flight

Boom Supersonic's Overture, the Symphony Engine That Rolls-Royce Walked Away From, and the Twenty-Three-Year Gap in Commercial Supersonic Flight. With Vector on Radio Han

Oct 2
12 min

Archer Aviation's Midnight, the Twelve-Rotor Electric Air Taxi, and the FAA Certification Math That Has United Airlines Already Writing Checks

Archer Aviation's Midnight, the Twelve-Rotor Electric Air Taxi, and the FAA Certification Math That Has United Airlines Already Writing Checks. With Vector on Radio Hanga

Oct 2
14 min

ZeroAvia, the Dornier Two Twenty-Eight Test Bed, and the Hydrogen-Electric Powertrain That Could Outrange Every Battery in Regional Aviation

ZeroAvia, the Dornier Two Twenty-Eight Test Bed, and the Hydrogen-Electric Powertrain That Could Outrange Every Battery in Regional Aviation. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

Oct 2
13 min

The NASA X-66A, the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing, and the Structural Geometry That Could Cut a Third of Commercial Aviation's Fuel Burn

The NASA X-66A, the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing, and the Structural Geometry That Could Cut a Third of Commercial Aviation's Fuel Burn. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

Oct 2
12 min

ACAS X, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Upgrade to TCAS II, and the Probabilistic Architecture Built for a Sky Full of Drones

ACAS X, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Upgrade to TCAS II, and the Probabilistic Architecture Built for a Sky Full of Drones. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

Oct 1
15 min

The Garmin GFC Five Hundred, the Certified Autopilot Retrofit That Brought Envelope Protection to Forty Years of Legacy General Aviation

The Garmin GFC Five Hundred, the Certified Autopilot Retrofit That Brought Envelope Protection to Forty Years of Legacy General Aviation. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

Oct 1
14 min

The Alaska Capstone Program, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, and the Bush Flying Surveillance Problem That Built the National ADS-B Mandate

The Alaska Capstone Program, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, and the Bush Flying Surveillance Problem That Built the National ADS-B Mandate. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

Oct 1
12 min

The Dream Chaser, the NASA Lifting Body Legacy, and the Space Plane Designed to Come Home to a Runway You Already Know

The Dream Chaser, the NASA Lifting Body Legacy, and the Space Plane Designed to Come Home to a Runway You Already Know. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

Oct 1
16 min

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