Business & GA

Thunder Airlines Adds SkyNode S200

[Avionics Today May 30, 2014] Thunder Airlines is upgrading its fleet of General Aviation (GA) aircraft with a new flight tracking system.  The Canadian charter carrier is adding the SkyNode S200 flight tracking…

Business & GA

Global Connected Aircraft Summit Preview

[Avionics Today May 29, 2014] Next week, Long Beach, Calif. will play host to an event  looking at the future of the connected aircraft, the Global Connected Aircraft Summit (GCA Summit).  The aircraft…

ATM Modernization

Black Box Data Streaming Enabled by IP

[Avionics Today May 29, 2014] Improving ground-based real-time monitoring of aircraft data is a topic of wide and heated discussion among airlines, regulators, avionics manufacturers and others following the loss of Malaysia Airlines’…

Connectivity

Flight Tests Prove Fifth, Fourth Generation Communications

[Avionics Today May 29, 2014] A new communications technology enables information sharing between fifth and fourth generation fighter jets, according to Northrop Grumman. The U.S. military, like all other nations, tries to keep…

Commercial

Global Hawk UAS Achieves New Flight Hours Record

[Avionics Today May 28, 2014] The U.S. Air Force RQ-4 GLobal Hawk Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) set a new record, flying 665 mission hours in one week, Northrop Grumman has confirmed.  According to…

Commercial

Jazeera Airways Upgrades Flight Planning 

[Avionics Today May 28, 2014] Jazeera Airways has signed a new five-year flight planning service contract with Jeppesen, adding the Boeing Digital Aviation subsidiary's JetPlanner system.    The Middle East regional carrier is…

Business & GA

C27-J Gets New EFB Approval 

[Avionics Today May 28, 2014] Alenia Aermacchi's C-27J Spartan military transport aircraft has been approved by the European Aviation Safety Agency for installation of the Navaero t-Bag C2 Class 2 Electronic Flight Bag…

Commercial

Aviation Data Cloud Gains Traction 

[Avionics Today May 27, 2014] The concept of using an aviation computing cloud to track flight data in real time gained traction at a two-day conference in Kuala Lumpur focused on improving aircraft…