CommercialDelta's First Airbus A220 Takes Flight With New Technologies On Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, Delta Air Lines completed the first passenger-carrying flight of its new Airbus A220, the first U.S. carrier to do so with the new jet following Airbus’ recent…
MilitarySixth-Gen European Fighter Study Beginning This Month Ed. Note: France and Germany, through Airbus and Dassault, are partnering on a sixth-generation European fighter to replace the country's respective fifth-gen offerings beginning in about 20 years. The two companies are…
ConnectivityCurtiss Wright, Honeywell to Develop New Connected Cockpit Recorders Under a new agreement, Curtiss Wright and Honeywell Aerospace are developing a new generation of cockpit voice and flight data recorders, with the aim of bringing real-time data streaming and cloud upload…
ATM ModernizationEchodyne Supporting Northern Plains UTM Testing of BVLOS Capability Radar-maker Echodyne will partner with North Dakota's Northern Plains UAS Test Site as part of the next phase of the UAS Pilot Program (UPP), one of the FAA's endeavors testing the feasibility…
CommercialAirbus and Dassault Systèmes Sign Five-Year Pact to Change Airbus Manufacturing Airbus has signed a five-year memorandum of agreement with Dassault Systèmes (3DS) to overhaul the engineering and manufacture of Airbus aircraft across the entire company, civil and military. Under the agreement, Airbus…
Business & GABoeing Backs Aerion's Supersonic AS2 BizJet Boeing is investing in and partnering with civil supersonics company Aerion, whose AS2 business jet is expected to be the first to market with a slated 2023 first flight and 2026 service…
MilitaryElbit Subsidiary Gets Contract for RC-26B Avionics Refresh Support Systems Associates, Inc. (SSAI) has awarded Elbit Systems of America a $5-to-$22 million sub-contract for intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR) avionics on the U.S. Air National Guard's RC-26B fleet. Work will be performed…
Embedded AvionicsGarmin's GPS 3000 Gets Certified in Europe Garmin's new wide-area/satellite-based augmentation system (WAAS/SBAS) GPS, the GPS 3000, has been certified in Europe. Meeting ADS-B Out requirements and capable of five position updates per second, the remote-mount GPS 3000 is…
MilitaryHow Airbus, Boeing are Helping Aviation Engineering Startups in India By 2025, India is expected to surpass the U.K. as the world’s third largest market for commercial airline operations. The South Asian nation’s passenger traffic is projected to surge to 278 million…
RegulationWill EASA Create a New Category for eVTOL Certification? The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is considering adding a "special condition" category to deal with the certification of electric and hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles, but the proposal may…