CommercialTianjin Airlines to Operate First Chinese-Built Airbus A330 Tianjin Airlines will become the first commercial carrier to operate an Airbus A330 manufactured in China. Airbus made the announcement Wednesday after completing the inauguration of its new A330 completion and delivery…
MilitaryDrones Take Advantage of Newly Allocated Spectrum AeroVironment is taking advantage of new frequency spectrum that has been allocated to unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) by the Defense Dept. The drone manufacturer has completed its first delivery of M1/M2/M5-compatible Raven…
CommercialCan Avionics OEMs Solve These Key Drone Problems in the US? As an FAA-designated unmanned aircraft system (UAS) test site, Virginia Tech is actively experimenting with new drone-related technology and concepts. Mark Blanks, director of the test site team, Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership (MAAP),…
ConnectivityHow Blockchain, Cloud Can Reinforce Cybersecurity in Commercial Aviation From keeping aircraft in the air to checking passengers in, aviation organizations rely heavily on information technology (IT) systems. But data collected from the growing number of aircraft, routes and passengers has…
MilitaryNew HF System Demos 5,000 Mile Communications Link Rockwell Collins, under contract to the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate, recently demonstrated the resilience of next-generation high frequency (HF) communications using a wide band high frequency (WBHF) system over a…
MilitaryNew HUD Completes First Flight on AC-130J A new head-up display (HUD), the LiteHUD, has completed its first flight on a U.S. Special Operations Command AC-130J aircraft. That flight was followed by flights completed onboard Textron’s Scorpion fighter jet…
MilitaryBoeing-Bombardier Conflict Could Prevent Canadian F-18 Purchase As Canada considers a major investment in new fighter jets, the nation’s prime minister says that investment will not go to Boeing if the OEM continues pursuing a lawsuit against Bombardier.…
ConnectivityAeron Funding Flight-Logging Blockchain Development Through Bitcoin, Ethereum Following a successful presale, aviation blockchain company Aeron said it is ready for its ARN tokens to go on sale for the public. Worth 50 cents each, tokens allow buyers to support…
Embedded AvionicsSUNY Professor's Patented Flight-Tracking System Could Replace Black Boxes Junaid Zubairi, a computer and information sciences professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia, has received a U.S. patent for his flight data tracker. It was designed by Zubairi…
CommercialFrom Pilot to Co-President of Verizon's Skyward: Jonathan Evans Talks Drones FAA records show that more than 80,000 individual unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) have been registered for commercial and government operations since August 2016. With some companies flying fleets of drones, operations software…