CommercialDrone Demos Power Line Monitoring Using Rockwell Collins Data Link The industry has taken another step toward safe beyond-line-of-sight unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operations. Rockwell Collins said it, along with Black & Veatch, successfully demonstrated a flight of this nature along nearly 10…
ConnectivityRockwell Collins-Led Team Demos Ability to Guard Flight Control Software From Attack A Pentagon-funded research team led by Rockwell Collins has demonstrated the ability to protect flight- and mission-critical systems from cyber attacks, the electronic systems manufacturer said. The team, which includes Boeing,…
RegulationGuyana Orders More Checks on Aircraft, Crew Amid Fatal Crashes The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority has been ordered to increase the amount of regular random aircraft and aircrew checks it performs, the Guyanese Ministry of the Presidency said. This follows three aircraft…
CommercialEASA Adds Easy Access Format to Latest Rules for Aerodromes EASA has published the latest iteration of consolidated rules for aerodromes. They have been published in the Easy Access format, which allows for free download from EASA’s website, the agency said. Other…
MilitaryRockwell Collins USAF Upgrades Could Have KC-135s Flying in Their 90s A Boeing KC-135 with Rockwell Collins-upgraded avionics has been delivered to The Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, the guard said. The aircraft received a Block 45…
Business & GAGlass Screens & Widgets Unseen When the Boeing 747-100 entered service in 1970, its three-person flight crew monitored and interacted with the aircraft and its systems through a massively comprehensive cockpit display system (CDS). Leave
Business & GAUpgrade Central: Aircraft Data Acquisition Technology Modern data acquisition technology uses real-time communication and advanced networks to monitor aircraft all over the world. This allows for flight data to still be relayed to crews and inspectors on the
ConnectivityStreamlining With Connectivity Looking at this issue’s cover, you may be wondering what Netflix, Google, Facebook and Visa are doing on there. Amid all the coverage of the technical aspects of airplane computing and data…
Connectivity2017 GCA Summit: Conceptualizing Aviation IOT Keynote speeches from Google, Facebook, Netflix and Visa at the 2017 Global Connected Aircraft Summit (GCAS) showed how aviation’s internet of things (IOT) age is becoming a reality. Facebook wants to use…
Business & GAInside the Next Generation of Business Jet Avionics Gulfstream Aerospace’s G500/600 data concentration network is setting the standard for the next generation of business jet avionics. The OEM is flight testing more aircraft than it ever has at one time