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Brian Garrett-Glaser | September 18 2019 2:44 pm

Defining the Technical Challenges for eVTOLs and On-Demand Air Mobility

At a three-day workshop hosted by the Vertical Flight Society (VFS) in Washington, D.C., stakeholders in the broader electric vertical ...
Brian Garrett-Glaser | September 17 2019 5:12 pm

PODCAST: VistaJet's Nick van der Meer on Launching LuxStream

On the latest episode of the Global Connected Aircraft Podcast, I spoke with VistaJet Chief Operating Officer Nick Van der Meer. VistaJet ...
Woodrow Bellamy III | September 13 2019 6:04 pm

Carlisle Ready to Cool Electronically Steered Antennas for NextGen Satellites

LOS ANGELES – Carlisle Interconnect Technologies (CIT) and Ball Aerospace signed a memorandum of understanding at the 2019 Airline ...
Brian Garrett-Glaser | September 10 2019 3:40 pm

Flirtey Wants to Enable Ten Minute Commercial Drone Deliveries

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Drone delivery startup Flirtey is enabling rapid point-to-point drone delivery using a new commercial drone, a ...
Woodrow Bellamy III | September 6 2019 3:10 pm

Singapore Airlines to Have Fleet Fully Connected by 2021

Over the next two years, Singapore Airlines will look to install in-flight connectivity technology supplied by Panasonic and SITAONAIR, ...
Woodrow Bellamy III | September 5 2019 6:31 pm

SITAONAIR Tackles Airline-OEM Data Ownership With ‘Data-Brokering’ Cloud

As the industry continually shifts toward the use of data-intensive predictive maintenance-based flight operations, a new cloud-based ...
Woodrow Bellamy III | September 1 2019 12:00 am

Next-Gen Antennas for Next-Gen Satellites

There are a plethora of research and development efforts under way right now among in-flight connectivity antenna makers. The majority of ...
Brian Garrett-Glaser | August 30 2019 7:12 pm

NASA Launches Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge Program

With NASA's four-year testing program on unmanned aircraft integration drawing to a close, the agency held a kickoff call with ...
Brian Garrett-Glaser | August 30 2019 3:21 pm

BAE Systems Moves Into the Aircraft Electrification Market

BAE Systems is moving into the aircraft electrification market, preparing to offer a suite of products to be used on platforms ranging from ...
Woodrow Bellamy III | August 16 2019 3:28 pm

Airbus A220 Gets New Iridium Satcom Option

Under a new agreement between L3Harris Technologies and Airbus, the A220 has a new line-fit satellite communications option, the Automated ...
Nick Zazulia | July 9 2019 2:58 pm

BAE Building Machine-Learning Tool Under DARPA Contract

DARPA has tapped BAE Systems to produce a new machine learning-powered tool that allows for the rapid deciphering of unique radio ...
Nick Zazulia | June 27 2019 7:47 pm

ENGINEER PROFILE: How Ben Wring Makes UAVs Communicate for Persistent Systems

Persistent Systems engineer Ben Wring has been enchanted by the "romance of aviation" since his childhood trips to United ...
Frank Wolfe | June 13 2019 2:52 pm

Urban Air Mobility in Regulatory Infancy, Elwell Says

While the buzz surrounding Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is ever louder, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Acting Administrator Daniel ...
Brian Garrett-Glaser | June 13 2019 2:49 pm

Melbourne Joins Dallas, L.A. as Third Uber Air Launch City

Melbourne, Australia, is Uber's third international pilot city for Uber Air, joining Dallas and Los Angeles as launch municipalities ...
Nick Zazulia | June 3 2019 5:43 pm

Honeywell Shrinks Fly-By-Wire System for Air Taxi Market

Honeywell is bringing its commercial aircraft fly-by-wire system to the urban air mobility (UAM) market, and the aerospace company is ...
Woodrow Bellamy III | June 1 2019 12:00 am

Thai Airways is investing Millions in Predictive Maintenance, MRO Service Expansion

On May 6, 2019, Avionics International was one of several aerospace publications invited to experience a week-long tour providing an ...
Woodrow Bellamy III | June 1 2019 12:00 am

Airlines are Increasingly Connecting Artificial Intelligence to Their MRO Strategies

Airlines based in the U.S., Europe and Asia have been quietly adopting AI tools in the form of intelligent agents for data modeling and ...
Nick Zazulia | May 24 2019 2:48 pm

BAE Systems Earns Amazon Web Services DevOps Partner Designation

BAE Systems has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps competency consulting partner status, which the company says will help it develop ...

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