Air TaxiWith Urban Air Mobility Coming into Focus, Two Companies Present Alternative Visions As a number of companies including Boeing, Bell Flight, Volocopter and Sabrewing (among others) are developing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for various cargo delivery and passenger carrying missions, two…
CommercialSouthwest Airlines Pilots File Boeing 737 MAX Lawsuit On Monday Oct. 7, the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) filed a lawsuit against Boeing alleging that the grounding of the in-service 737 MAX fleet has caused its pilots to potentially lose…
MilitaryRaytheon to Integrate Hand-Held Devices on Black Hawks Raytheon has received a $48 million U.S. Army contract to integrate and qualify hand-held devices into platform-mounted WiFi systems secured up to the Secret level, the company said on Oct. 7. Such…
Unmanned‘Detecting’ the Path to BVLOS Operations for Commercial Drones in US Airspace The full commercial potential of drones in civilian airspace in the United States is, for the moment, locked, as drones are unable to fly beyond their operator’s visual line of sight (BVLOS),…
Business & GAConnectivity Providers Explain How They’re Cyber Protecting Business Jets Cybersecurity for business aircraft has become a hot topic in recent years, with cyber-attacks on aircraft increasing annually according to business aviation solutions provider Satcom Direct (SD). In May 2019, SD reported…
Business & GAAircraft Modifiers Alliance Working to Streamline Aftermarket STC Process Several months after formally launching at the 2019 Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in April, the Independent Aircraft Modifier Alliance (IAMA) has formed four working groups, welcomed its first advisory member and is preparing…
Business & GABusiness Aviation Ramping Up ADS-B, but 5,500 Aircraft May Fail to Meet Deadline While the FAA is likely to limit significantly the number of exemptions granted for flights of aircraft without Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (Out) after Jan. 1 next year, nearly 5,500 business aviation aircraft…
Business & GALuxStream Debuts on Vista Global to Disrupt Business Jet Connectivity A disruptive new in-flight connectivity service, LuxStream, has been established by Collins Aerospace in partnership with SES that will provide speeds up to 25 Mbps in the United States and 15Mbps globally via SES's…
Business & GAA Plethora of Business Connectivity 2019 will be the second consecutive year where a disruptive new satellite-based connectivity service dedicated exclusively to business aviation operators will make its industry debut at the annual National Business Aviation Association…
Air TaxiKitty Hawk Reveals Ultra-Quiet ‘Heaviside’ eVTOL Design The secretive electric aircraft company Kitty Hawk, backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, revealed its third electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) design: a small, quiet aircraft with eight tilting propellers called…