It was announced recently that Selma, Alabama, will be home to the United States' first remotely operated air traffic control tower. The FAA is contracting with private industry to run the towers-the Selma facility will be the first of many-which have already been successfully integrated into airspace systems in other countries. Urban aerial transportation company Joby Aviation bought German hydrogen technology developer H2Fly last year but managed to keep it off the radar. Terms were not disclosed, and Joby so far has been tight lipped about how it plans to incorporate H2Fly's business into its own. A TikTok user who identified himself as an air traffic controller caused quite a stir when he "revealed" that many air traffic control towers close at night, leaving it up to the pilots to sort out arrivals on their own. We cleared the matter up in a story on planeandpilotmag.com addressing the truth behind the claims the controller made.
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