CommercialQantas Keeps Project Sunrise in Future Plans Despite Impact of COVID-19 Quantas is unlikely to resume international flying until July 2021, CEO Alan Joyce said during the Australian carrier's Aug. 20 conference call. The company reported a $1.9 billion loss under the impact…
Commercial10 New Concepts, Technologies Developed to Address COVID-19 in Aviation Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic in March, companies across different segments of the aviation industry have introduced new concepts, initiatives, trials and technologies designed to help the aviation industry…
CommercialLeonardo Developing ‘Connectivity Layer’ to Enable Predictive Maintenance for Helicopter Operators Engineers at Leonardo are advancing new digital and connectivity services and techniques designed to introduce the concept of predictive maintenance to in-service civil and military helicopter operators, leadership from within the company’s…
ConnectivityIridium Certus Data Transmission First Achieved by Collins Aerospace Collins Aerospace has completed the first data transmission to an orbiting Iridium satellite using Certus, enabled by a new satellite communications system the company is developing. Certus is Iridium’s multi-service communications platform…
CommercialPODCAST: Aviation Agency Talks US Airline Outlook Amid COVID-19 On this episode of the Connected Aircraft Podcast, Bryan Del Monte, founder of the Aviation Agency, joins the podcast to provide some perspective on the outlook for the US airline industry as…
CommercialKT to Launch In-flight Virtual Reality Entertainment Service on Jin Air South Korean low cost carrier Jin Air is preparing to launch a new in-flight virtual reality (VR) entertainment service on international routes by the end of the year, under a new partnership…
Editor's NoteTech, VC Move Forward on Supersonics — Are They Economically Viable? Competition toward the next generation of supersonic aircraft continues to heat up, with a number of announcements in the past two weeks: Hermeus Corporation won a $1.5 million prototyping award from the…
ConnectivityResearcher Demonstrates Satellite Eavesdropping on In-flight Passenger Internet at Black Hat 2020 Oxford PhD candidate and cybersecurity research James Pavur, along with a team of European experts, used about $300 in home television equipment and specialized software to enable "satellite eavesdropping" on in-flight passenger…
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