A digital air traffic control (ATC) centre has opened at a UK airfield for the first time. Controllers at Cranfield Airport in Bedfordshire have begun using live footage from high-definition cameras ...

Cranfield Airport is extending its capabilities with the construction of a new radar surveillance system, which will be the first on-site radar facility in 30 years. The radar from Easat Radar Systems ...

A new radar tower at Cranfield Airport will be operational from next year. The tower at the airport near Milton Keynes will operate alongside the existing control tower. It will improve the airport's ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used to inspect the runway at Cranfield Airport remotely for the first time. The flights make use of ‘drone-in-a-box’ technology with the aim of enabling ...

Prof Graham Braithwaite said the centre would help make air travel "safer and more convenient" The first fully operational digital air traffic control centre in the UK has opened in Bedfordshire.

Cranfield airport is stepping up its marketing effort in a bid to attract more business aviation traffic to the southern UK site. The historic aerodrome and former RAF base - around 80km (50 miles) ...

Cranfield Aerospace has conducted a first series of flight tests with its Valkyrie vertical take-off and landing mini unmanned air vehicle, and is offering to develop an operational version for the UK ...

Cranfield Airport is a commercial, research and General Aviation (GA) airport situated between Bedford and Milton Keynes, and is the home base to many corporate and private aircraft owners. We ...

The tower will help air traffic controllers at Cranfield understand more of the activity in the skies around the airport [Cranfield University] A new radar tower at Cranfield Airport will be ...

The tower at the airport near Milton Keynes will operate alongside the existing control tower. It will improve the airport's capacity to map airspace, actively detecting aircraft rather than relying ...