CommercialHoneywell Brings Used Aircraft Parts Market into the Blockchain Era Honeywell is using blockchain technology to modernize the process of buying and selling used aircraft parts in what it calls an industry first, with its new GoDirect Trade aerospace e-commerce platform. GoDirect…
MilitaryAirbus Helicopters Will Produce in Hungary Under New Agreement Airbus Helicopters will produce high-precision mechanical parts in Hungary under the terms of a new, long-term partnership. That production is the first example of cooperation under a Memorandum of Understanding announced Monday…
MilitaryLockheed, Universal Synaptics Partner to Address Fighter Jet Faults Lockheed Martin will be the systems integrator of two Universal Synaptics automated test equipment solutions across key Defense Department programs under a new intermittent fault detection technology licensing agreement. The Universal Synaptics…
CommercialThe Secret Sauce Supporting NORAD's Santa Tracker Tracking Santa's route isn't as simple as drawing a line that connects the cities of the world; His sleigh has a weight to it, it has a maximum climb rate, it has…
IIOT CyberAIA Releases New Aerospace Cyber Standard The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) has released a risk-based cyber security standard aimed giving companies in the aerospace and defense industry set of baseline security controls that can evolve with changing threats…
MilitaryTalking Gripen E's Innovative Avionics with Saab's Development Lead Saab’s second Gripen E test aircraft, the 39-9, has entered the Swedish manufacturer’s flight test program — on the docket is its unique use of distributed integrated modular avionics (DIMA). Test aircraft 39-9…
CommercialVirgin Galactic Passes 271,000 Feet in First Space Flight Virgin Galactic’s suborbital SpaceShipTwo, the VSS Unity, soared to 271,268 feet to become the first crewed flight vehicle built for commercial passenger service to reach space. The successful SpaceShipTwo test flight marks…
CommercialAirAsia, FLYHT Agree on Services for 190 Aircraft FLYHT Aerospace Solutions reached an agreement with AirAsia to more than double the installation base for its weather and flight tracking services on the operator's fleet to 190 aircraft. FLYHT picked up…
ConnectivityViva Air Equips A320s With Teledyne Sim Service, Wireless Avionics Viva Air will equip a fleet of 50 new Airbus A320s with wireless data loading and transmission technology designed to improve aircraft health monitoring and parts loading among other aircraft electronic functionality.…
ATM ModernizationEuropean ADS-B Implementation Plan to be Finalized in January The Single European ATM Research Agency Deployment Manager (SESAR DM) is in the final stages of launching a new ADS-B implementation plan that will synchronize the air traffic, avionics equipage and ground…