ConnectivityENGINEER PROFILE: How Ben Wring Makes UAVs Communicate for Persistent Systems Persistent Systems engineer Ben Wring has been enchanted by the “romance of aviation” since his childhood trips to United Airlines’ San Francisco International Airport maintenance facility, where his uncle and grandfather…
CommercialAirbus Electrifies the Single-Engine H130 in Hybrid Experiment Airbus Helicopters is integrating an electrical backup system into an H130 demonstrator as part of a research project. In conjunction with the French Ministry of Transport (DGAC), Thales and Adeneo, the goal…
CommercialUniversal Avionics is Taking Flight Management Digital with Its Software-Based Interactive FMS Universal Avionics' next-generation flight management system will be a software-based solution based on an integrated modular avionics infrastructure, the company revealed at the Paris Air Show this week. The ClearVision Interactive-FMS augments…
CommercialRolls-Royce Buys Siemens' eAircraft Business to Jolt Electrification Efforts Rolls-Royce has agreed to purchase Siemens' electric and hybrid-electric aerospace propulsion activities in an undisclosed deal that the power systems company expects to be completed late this year. Siemens' electric aircraft business…
CommercialSales, Services, Saying Sorry: Boeing's Big Paris Air Show Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg admitted Sunday in Paris that the company "clearly had [made] a mistake in the implementation of the alert" on the 737 MAX and in its public communications concerning…
CommercialAirbus Launches New Extra-Long-Range A321neo Variant Airbus has launched a new long-range single-aisle aircraft, the A321XLR. An evolution of the A321neo, the new XLR has a range of 4,700 nautical miles, greater than the distance from New York…
CommercialExperiencing Uber's Vision for Urban Air Mobility at Uber Elevate Take a ride with Uber Elevate, traveling 47 miles over congested roads in under 10 minutes total. Turn to your right, and you will see Oakland's Oracle Arena dropping away, the site…
MilitaryFrance's Do-It-All H160 Cheetah to Get Matching Thales Avionics The French military will equip its Airbus H160 variant — the "Guépard," or cheetah — with Thales' FlytX avionics suite. FlytX is a touchscreen-centric system that the company customizes for customer need.…