CommercialHoneywell Forge Can Lead to Significant Savings for Airlines, Company Says Launched in June, the Honeywell Forge data analytics tool allows airlines to save up to $200,000 per aircraft per year in fuel costs and up to $40,000 per aircraft per year in…
MilitaryF-35 JPO: ALIS Fix Targeted for September 2020 The Defense Department and Lockheed Martin expect to field a modernized, upgraded version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s Automated Logistics Information System (ALIS) by next fall, service and industry officials told…
ConnectivityThuraya Ramps Up ISR Aircraft Connectivity Plans After Successful Demo Thuraya’s ambitions in the aero sector have been boosted thanks to a successful demonstration Nov. 13. In partnership with SCOTTY, a developer of beyond line-of-sight (BLOS) satellite communication solutions based in…
Business & GASale of 5 KC-390s for Portugal to Bring $1 Billion in Sales, Embraer Says The sale of five Embraer KC-390s to Portugal is to bring Embraer about $1 billion in revenue, the company said in a 2019 third quarter earnings call on Nov. 12. "This contract…
ATM ModernizationDelayed Delivery of En-route CPDLC Messages Fixed, FAA Says The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said this week that it has fixed a lateness in the delivery of en-route use of controller-to-pilot data link communications (en-route CPDLC) messages–a tardiness that occurred twice…
Air TaxiEvergy Inspects 150 Miles of Power Lines with True BVLOS Drone Flights The Kansas Department of Transportation, working with Iris Automation and Evergy Power, successfully completed the first beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) drone operation using only onboard detect-and-avoid systems. This marks the first FAA-authorized…
Air TaxiHow Major Helicopter Manufacturers Are Preparing for the Urban Air Mobility Market The development of electric and hybrid VTOL (eVTOL) aircraft around the world promises to usher in a new era of aerial mobility, changing the cost of access to vertical flight and potentially…
MilitaryAirbus Helicopters’ Redesigned VSR700 Unmanned Helicopter Makes Maiden Flight Airbus Helicopters’ unmanned VSR700 demonstrator performed its first flight under a new configuration at a drone test center near Aix-en-Provence, taking off and landing several times while tethered to the ground. Its…
Embedded AvionicsAstronics Embeds 64-bit Processing, Ethernet in New NG Avionics I/O Systems Astronics Ballard is embedding an open architecture with a 64-bit processing foundation and Ethernet backbone across its next generation of NG avionics input/output (I/O) computers. The New York-based manufacturer unveiled the…
MilitaryL2 Aviation to Install ADS-B Upgrades for U.S. Air Force KC-10 Tankers Collins Aerospace has awarded L2 Aviation a subcontract for installations of Mode 5 Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) upgrades for the U.S. Air Force's fleet of 58 Boeing KC-10 Extender tanker aircraft, the…