Very High Frequency Omni-Directional Range (VOR) stations are ground-based radio beacons that have historically served as primary navigation aids for aircraft since the 1930s, determining an ...

That deepening problem of modern times—giant airliners swooping in on airports thick with ever-increasing traffic—sat like a brooding presence last week at the meeting of the International Civil ...

One of Washington’s bitterest technical squabbles, the long rivalry between aircraft-guidance systems, reached a new phase last week. The Air Coordinating Committee announced a compromise plan that ...

The FAA has announced more specific plans to begin scaling back its commitment to VOR stations beginning in 2010. Seen as a measure of commitment to GPS as a primary source of navigation information, ...