The journey of a commercial airliner does not start when the wheels lift off; it begins long before, when the aircraft pushes back from the gate and begins taxiing toward the runway. While it may look ...

Safe taxiing requires constant vigilance for foreign object debris (FOD) and careful navigation in confined spaces, paying close attention to wingtip clearance. Pilots should taxi at a slow, brisk ...

The aircraft of the future won’t just fly itself…it will taxi itself, too. Autonomous taxiing technology is no longer a science project confined to testbeds and prototypes. It’s now a rapidly ...

Green Taxi Solutions (GTS) has developed an electric taxi system that allows aircraft to maneuver without using their main engines, powered by the APU driving a motor on a main landing gear wheel.

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