CommercialEditor's Note: Autonomous Flight Tracking Collectively, the global aviation electronics industry is defining the way real-time autonomous distress flight tracking will occur in the future. At a minimum, aircraft manufactured after January 1, 2021 are
ConnectivityAutonomous Avionics: Minute-by-Minute Aircraft Tracking This concept is known as autonomous distress tracking (ADT). It becomes applicable under changes related to the Global Aeronautical Distress Safety System (GADSS) that the International Civil Aviation
Business & GAFAA Grounds Cirrus Vision Jets After Angle of Attack Incidents The FAA has issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) that has prompted the grounding of Cirrus SF50 Vision Jets, requiring a replacement of the aircraft’s angle of attack (AOA) sensors before operators…
Business & GASmart Displays Are Computers on New AeroVue Flight Deck BendixKing’s new AeroVue Touch integrated flight deck takes a disruptive new approach to the traditional concept of display-centered flight decks by embedding computing engines within new smart cockpit displays. The Honeywell…
ATM ModernizationFlight Tests of LDACS Prototype Under Way in Germany Engineers and pilots at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are the world’s first aerospace industry researchers to flight test a prototype L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications System (LDACS), which could become a key…
CommercialL3 Has New Data, Voice Recorders for EASA’s 2021 Mandate A new generation of L3 cockpit voice and data recorders capable of meeting the the European Aviation Safety Agency’s (EASA) new aircraft voice and data recording mandates are in the beginning stages…
CommercialBoeing Reports 1Q Deliveries, Lowers 737 MAX Production Boeing reported a combined 209 deliveries of commercial and defense fixed and rotary wing aircraft during the first three months of 2019, including 89 deliveries of the grounded 737 MAX. 737…
CommercialNew Collins Electric Aircraft Lab Has High Voltage Goals A new $50 million high-voltage lab, “The Grid,” being built by Collins Aerospace in Rockford, Illinois will serve as the design and testing center for developing a 1-megawatt (MW) motor, motor controller…