Air TaxiMarine Corps Partners with Air Force Agility Prime on eVTOL Aircraft for Logistics The Pentagon’s interest in electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft continues to grow, with the Marine Corps’ Warfighting Lab now partnering with the Air Force’s Agility Prime program to explore unmanned…
Business & GARegional Aviation Likely Commercial Test Bed for Hybrid and All-Electric Aircraft While aviation companies are predicting the electrification of airliners, the commercial test bed will be regional aviation, including urban air mobility, and the fielding timeline looks to be 2030 at the earliest.…
Embedded AvionicsNorthrop Grumman's E-2D, F-22 Embedded GPS System Upgrade to Run on INTEGRITY-178 RTOS Northrop Grumman’s $59 million contract to develop an upgraded embedded GPS system for E-2D Hawkeye and F-22 Raptor aircraft will run on a real time operating system (RTOS) supplied by Green Hills…
Air TaxiEHang Receives ‘Operational Flight Permit’ from Norway CAA Chinese autonomous aerial vehicle maker EHang has obtained an ‘operational flight permit’ from the Civil Aviation Authority of Norway for its two-seat EHang 216 — its first such approval in Europe. The…
MilitaryBoeing Says FARA Avionics Approach Focused on "Full Implementation" of MOSA Boeing's avionics approach to the company's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) design, released on March 3, is focused on "full implementation" of the U.S. Army's Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA), according to…
CommercialBoeing Commercial CEO Expects Mid-Year Return to Service of 737 MAX Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Stan Deal expects the grounded 737 MAX fleet to achieve re-certification and a return to service by mid-year, the executive said during a fireside chat at the U.S.…
ConnectivityNew Standard Promises Airlines More Flexibility When Upgrading In-flight Connectivity A new in-flight connectivity (IFC) standard, Seamless Release 1.0, has been published by the Seamless Air Alliance to introduce the use of open interfaces such as Hotspot 2.0 and native cellular roaming…
MilitaryAir Force Requests More Than $50 Million for C-5 Avionics-Related Upgrades The United States Air Force's fiscal 2021 budget requests more than $50 million in avionics-related upgrades for the service's fleet of 52 Lockheed Martin C-5M Super Galaxy transports, including 36 in the…
ConnectivityHow BizJet Operators are Staying on Top of Connectivity This is the second part of a three-part Q&A session with Honeywell Aerospace focused on their support of connectivity for business jets. Brought to you by Honeywell. If you missed the first…
MilitaryUS Air Force Officials Expect KC-46 Remote Vision System Fix by 2023 The Air Force expects to receive a solution to its biggest Category-1 deficiency on the KC-46A Pegasus tanker by 2023, one year behind previous estimates, the service’s senior military official told the…