Air TaxiOPINION: Technology Changed Aviation and It’s Happening Again with Electric Aircraft In many ways, the history of commercial aviation has been a quest for more speed, altitude, and economy. Propulsion technology, in particular, has played a crucial role in reaching these goals, and…
Air TaxiThis Stealth Air Taxi Startup Is Driving Up the Cost of UAM Engineers A stealth-mode startup working on electric aircraft is luring engineering talent away from other urban air mobility (UAM) companies with higher salaries, sources within the industry told Avionics International. Santa Clara-based Archer…
Business & GAPODCAST SERIES Pt. 2: Aerospace Industry Outlook Under the Coronavirus Pandemic – BUSINESS AVIATION On the second of this new four-part podcast series, we discuss the operational impact of the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus global pandemic on business aviation. Guests on this episode include the…
Business & GAFAA Moves Forward on Standards for Supersonic Aircraft The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is moving forward on standards for future supersonic aircraft in announcing a notice of proposed rulemaking last week for noise levels for those aircraft. The proposed rulemaking…
Embedded AvionicsChallenges to Developing Avionics Terminals with Commercial Waveform, Multi-Modem Capability Last week, the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) awarded Raytheon and L3Harris $500 million each to develop protected tactical waveform capable modems for the next generation Protected Tactical Satcom…
MilitaryAir Force, Boeing Reach New Agreement on KC-46A The Air Force and Boeing announced April 2 that they have agreed upon a solution to fix the remote vision system on the KC-46A Pegasus, in the hopes of resolving one of the tanker…
MilitaryFortem’s F700 DroneHunter: Open Architecture Autonomous Drone-to-Drone Combat Fortem Technologies released a new autonomous counter-drone solution it calls the F700 DroneHunter: a drone that can be mounted with a variety of countermeaures to protect refineries, stadiums and other critical infrastructure…