Business & GAPersonal Airline Exchange Orders 50 Ampaire Electric Aircraft for On-Demand Charter Service Just two weeks after Ampaire’s successful flight tests of its twin-engine hybrid-electric EEL commuter aircraft, Personal Airline Exchange (PAX) has placed an order for 50 of the retrofitted Cessna 337s, with an…
CommercialSales, Services, Saying Sorry: Boeing's Big Paris Air Show Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg admitted Sunday in Paris that the company "clearly had [made] a mistake in the implementation of the alert" on the 737 MAX and in its public communications concerning…
ConnectivityCurtiss Wright CTO Talks Reality of Cyber Threats to Connected Avionics Systems SAN DIEGO – During the 2019 Global Connected Aircraft Summit, Avionics International discussed emerging cyber security threats to connected avionics systems becoming a reality as more high speed internet protocol (IP)-based connectivity…
ATM ModernizationFAA Researching Use of Airplane Connectivity for SWIM SAN DIEGO — The FAA wants to use the increased presence of faster air-to-ground and satellite-based internet connectivity links on air transport aircraft to optimize the sharing of airspace system information among airlines,…
ConnectivitySES Developing New Satellites, Service Models for Airplane Connectivity SAN DIEGO — SES wants to use its next generation satellite constellation, O3b mPOWER, to provide increased capacity to airlines for in-flight connectivity, while also considering how to establish a new end-to-end…
CommercialAirbus Launches New Extra-Long-Range A321neo Variant Airbus has launched a new long-range single-aisle aircraft, the A321XLR. An evolution of the A321neo, the new XLR has a range of 4,700 nautical miles, greater than the distance from New York…
CommercialExperiencing Uber's Vision for Urban Air Mobility at Uber Elevate Take a ride with Uber Elevate, traveling 47 miles over congested roads in under 10 minutes total. Turn to your right, and you will see Oakland's Oracle Arena dropping away, the site…
MilitaryFrance's Do-It-All H160 Cheetah to Get Matching Thales Avionics The French military will equip its Airbus H160 variant — the "Guépard," or cheetah — with Thales' FlytX avionics suite. FlytX is a touchscreen-centric system that the company customizes for customer need.…
Embedded AvionicsThales Acquires Artificial Intelligence Company Psibernetix Bolstering its capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), France's Thales said earlier this month that it acquired Ohio-based Psibernetix, which has developed processes that enable AI decisions to be mathematically verified and validated…
CommercialUber Elevate: All the Highlights from UAM's Biggest Show Uber's third annual Elevate Summit has closed, and you can be forgiven for missing some of the announcements which hit downtown Washington fast and hard. Luckily, Avionics is here to round them…