CommercialBoom Test Pilot Talks Supersonic Interface for XB-1 Demonstrator As Boom Supersonic prepares for the planned rollout of its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft in December and first flight next year, Avionics International caught up with Chris “Duff” Guarente, a test pilot for…
ConnectivitySingapore Airlines to Have Fleet Fully Connected by 2021 Over the next two years, Singapore Airlines will look to install in-flight connectivity technology supplied by Panasonic and SITAONAIR, while also testing the use of virtual reality headsets for passenger entertainment, Ng…
CommercialU.S. Helicopter Safety Team Backs Lightweight Helicopter Flight Data Monitors While helicopter operators with large fleets have been able to install Helicopter Flight Data Monitoring (HFDM) systems to help head off accidents, small operators have lagged, and the U.S. Helicopter Safety Team…
ConnectivityViasat Increases Speeds for Connected Business Jets Viasat revealed new increased speeds, service packages and hardware incentives. The new In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) business aviation service packages aims to enable new and existing Ku-band customers the ability to upgrade their connectivity…
CommercialSITAONAIR Tackles Airline-OEM Data Ownership With ‘Data-Brokering’ Cloud As the industry continually shifts toward the use of data-intensive predictive maintenance-based flight operations, a new cloud-based aircraft data-brokering platform, e-Aircraft DataHub, is what SITAONAIR hopes can resolve the ongoing question airlines…
Air TaxiHelsinki Volocopter Flight Test Evaluates UTM for Air Taxi Operations During a flight test at Helsinki International Airport on August 30, Volocopter and the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) Gulf of Finland U-space team evaluated the ability of integrated air traffic…
Air TaxiRegulators to Urban Air Mobility Industry: 'We Want to Become More Agile' Industry and regulatory leaders in urban air mobility (UAM) gathered this week at the Global Urban Air Summit in Farnborough, with regulators stressing their commitment to matching industry's pace but underlining the…
ConnectivityThales Becomes Latest Iridium Certus Aviation Service Provider Thales has become the newest Iridium Certus aviation service provider, giving the French avionics manufacturer the ability to provide both the next generation L-band terminals and services to business jets, commercial aircraft,…
CommercialAvionics Improvements a Focus of U.S. Helicopter Safety Team Avionics improvements are a part of the U.S. Helicopter Safety Team's (USHST) efforts to reduce the number of fatal rotorcraft accidents. On Sept. 3, USHST released a list of 16 proposed safety…
CommercialWhat Will Disrupt the Cabin IFEC Market? Avionics is bringing back our coverage of passenger-facing IFEC technological expansion in capabilities. We’re going behind the interiors and inside the processors of seatback screens to uncover the embedded