The president said he and congressional leaders will sit down and "do a great computerized system for our control towers, brand new," rather than trying to improve the current system. "I'm going ...

In November, pilots from the U.S. Air Force’s 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath were decorated for their role in shooting down 80 one-way attack drones launched from Iran and Yemen using a mix ...

Donald Trump said Tuesday the group, mostly men in their mid-to-early 20s with one as young as 19, are “very smart people” who should be working in air traffic control towers nationwide. “They’re ...

“We’re going to do a great computerized system for our control towers,” Trump teased. “Brand new, not pieced together, obsolete.” “We spent billions and billions of dollars trying to ...

Trump said he would talk to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) about passing “a single bill where we get ...

“We’re all going to sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers, brand new, not pieced together,” Trump said Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.

Long before the Obama and Biden administrations’ quest to diversify staff in control towers, the system was already one of the worst in the developed world. The recent rash of near-collisions is the ...

It’s unclear what reforms the bill would call for, but Trump mentioned using “a great computerized system” for air traffic control towers. The FAA has sought to modernize air traffic control ...

I think what is going to happen is we’re all going to sit down and do a great computerized system for our control towers. Brand-new — not pieced together, obsolete.” A midair collision ...