Commercial

Aurora Shows Off Aircraft Autonomy through DARPA Program

Aurora's Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program. Photo: Aurora Flight Sciences [Avionics Magazine 10-18-2016] On Oct. 17, Aurora Flight Sciences demonstrated automated flight capabilities with its Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System…

ATM Modernization

New ARINC Datalink, GNSS, Software Standards in Development

[Avionics Magazine 10-18-2016] Several new avionics standards are in development to provide production and manufacturing guidance for avionics equipment and Air Traffic Management (ATM) technologies designed to support Single European Sky ATM…

Commercial

Saab ASSC Improves Situational Awareness at San Francisco Airport

San Francisco International Airport. Photo: San Francisco International Airport [Avionics Magazine 10-18-2016] Defense and security company Saab’s Airport Surface Surveillance Capability (ASSC) is now operational for the FAA at San Francisco International…

Commercial

Lufthansa Technik Introduces Paperless Maintenance

Photo: Lufthansa Technik [Avionics Magazine 10-18-2016] Lufthansa Technik, the Lufthansa Airline’s Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) organization, has introduced digital documentation of documents for aircraft maintenance across its German operations. The digital…

Business & GA

First Modernized Mi-28N Prototype Flies

Russian Helicopters has been developing a prototype attack version of the Mi-28 with a new front cabin crew and a guidance, navigation and flight control system. Photo: Vitaly V. Kuzmin/CC BY-SA 4.0…

Commercial

Boeing Launches 777X Facility in St. Louis

Boeing 777X. Photo: Boeing [Avionics Magazine 10-14-2016] Boeing has formally opened a new composite center on its St. Louis campus that will house the company’s largest commercial aviation work statement ever placed…

Commercial

Play the Avionics News Quiz of October 14

Miami International Airport could be out a few dollars after Luis Ramirez, the former president, vice president, secretary and sole owner of Aviation Main Services, pled guilty to grand theft of more…

Military

How Boeing Converts F-16s to Unmanned Configuration

[Avionics Magazine 10-14-2016] On Sept. 23, 2016, the U.S. Air Force declared Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the QF-16, the unmanned configuration of the fourth generation F-16 fighter jet. Avionics Magazine recently…