Business & GA5G Deployment Important for Urban Air Mobility, Defense Communications, Wind River Says The deployment of 5G networks to enable rapid, high-bandwidth communications will be important for urban air mobility and defense, according to a new Wind River report, Solving 5G's Biggest Challenges for Communications…
Editor's NoteAvionics Industry Faces Challenges Through COVID-19 Pandemic Perhaps one of the biggest COVID-19 shocks came on May 4, when GE Aviation President and CEO published a statement confirming the company’s expectation for workforce reductions. In the statement, Joyce writes,…
ConnectivityElectronic Flight Bag Applications Advance, Including Those with NASA’s TASAR Advancements in electronic flight bag (EFB) applications are providing pilots and aircraft operators a number of benefits, including the ability to get weather updates to decide how and whether to proceed with…
Air TaxiWhat Will 5G Bring to the Aviation Industry? A range of new communications technologies are included up in the term ‘5G,’ including new radio access technology and antennas operating in the low, mid and high bands of the radiofrequency spectrum,…
ConnectivityIFC – How to Fulfill Its Promise The promise of in-flight connectivity (IFC), or in-flight Wi-Fi, that seamlessly provides passengers with an experience and capabilities near-equal to what they are used to receiving on the ground has yet to…
ConnectivityConnected Air Cargo Keeps Flying Amid COVID-19 Pandemic As passenger traffic plummeted to historic lows in March, some of the world’s largest airlines have had to ground a significant number of passenger airplanes, furlough pilots, flight attendants and maintenance workers…
CommercialIFC Installations Continue in Q1 but Ominous Signs for Q2 Valour Consultancy recently released the Q1 2020 update associated with its quarterly in-flight connectivity (IFC) tracker, which shows an uptick in the number of aircraft added to the global connected fleet; a…
Air TaxiFirst Flight of MagniX eCaravan Showcases Maturity of Electric Aviation Skies were all-clear for Redmond, Washington-based MagniX’s first flight of the largest all-electric commuter aircraft yet. Working with Seattle-based AeroTEC, the electric motor startup retrofitted a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan with its…
CommercialPODCAST: Airbus A220 Chief Engineer Explains How Cabin Air is Cleaner Than You Think On this episode of the Global Connected Aircraft Podcast, we caught up with Jean-François Parent, head of engineering and chief engineer for the Airbus Canada Limited Partnership’s A220 program. The chief engineer…
CommercialJetBlue CEO Says Cabin, Fleet Refresh to Continue Through COVID-19 JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes said the New York-based airline is still on schedule to take delivery of its first Airbus A220 later this year and will continue the ongoing process of refreshing…