Business & GABombardier Delivers Bizjet-Turned-Ambulance to Swiss Rega Bombardier has delivered the first of three Challenger 650-turned-air ambulances to Swiss Air-Rescue Rega. The remaining two Challenger 650 aircraft will be delivered later this year, replacing the air ambulance service’s earlier-generation…
Business & GABombardier Pioneers Ka-band on Global 6000 With Honeywell JetWave Bombardier’s Singapore service center used Honeywell Aerospace’s JetWave hardware to install its first Ka-band system on an in-service Global 6000 aircraft. “Our customers need to stay connected no matter where they are…
CommercialSouthwest 1380: Fatal Flight Under Investigation After Engine Loss On a given day, Boeing 737-family aircraft take flight thousands of times. Of those planes, 706 are members of the Southwest Airlines fleet. While most go without complication, Tuesday’s Southwest Flight 1380…
ProfilesMercury Systems Engineer Suggests Using AI to Certify AI David Simpson always dreamed of being a pilot. When he was a child in the U.K., his father was a member of the Royal Air Force, and he used to regale the…
MilitaryUS Navy Finally Embracing Mission-Based Platform Testing It makes sense to pay a nickel up front to save a dime in the long run. It’s easier to commit to that when a nickel is five cents instead of millions…
CommercialOnboard Teaching Hospital Flies to Peru Orbis' Flying Eye Hospital — the world's only U.S.-accredited teaching hospital on board an MD-10 aircraft — has returned to Trujillo, Peru, for the sixth time to deliver three weeks of ophthalmic…
CommercialAirbus' Navblue to Provide Runway Overrun System for JetSmart A320s Airbus subsidiary Navblue will equip low-cost Chilean carrier JetSmart’s 100-member A320-family fleet with a runway overrun protection system (ROPS). ROPS is an onboard cockpit alerting system that reduces exposure to runway overrun…
MilitaryMQ-25 Stingray Drone Purpose-Built to Marry Manned, Unmanned Manned and unmanned aircraft working in tandem is the arena where Lockheed Martin sees the upcoming MQ-25A Stingray breaking ground, according to Skunk Works head Rob Weiss. Speaking at the annual Sea-Air-Space…
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