Business & GAHoneywell’s UAM Avionics: Piloted First, Autonomous in the Future Honeywell has begun developing new flight-control and detect-and-avoid systems for future urban air mobility vehicles, Mike Ingram, the company’s vice president of cockpit systems told Avionics International. Ingram, who took over as…
CommercialA350 to Replace A380 as New Airbus Flagship Airplane The A350 is now the flagship passenger jet for Airbus, after the manufacturer made a financial decision to end production on the A380, executives said during their annual conference in Toulouse, France,…
CommercialDelta's First Airbus A220 Takes Flight With New Technologies On Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, Delta Air Lines completed the first passenger-carrying flight of its new Airbus A220, the first U.S. carrier to do so with the new jet following Airbus’ recent…
ConnectivityCurtiss Wright, Honeywell to Develop New Connected Cockpit Recorders Under a new agreement, Curtiss Wright and Honeywell Aerospace are developing a new generation of cockpit voice and flight data recorders, with the aim of bringing real-time data streaming and cloud upload…
MilitaryHow Airbus, Boeing are Helping Aviation Engineering Startups in India By 2025, India is expected to surpass the U.K. as the world’s third largest market for commercial airline operations. The South Asian nation’s passenger traffic is projected to surge to 278 million…
MilitaryMercury Systems Acquires GECO Avionics Mercury Systems has completed its $36.5 million acquisition of GECO Avionics. Headquartered at a 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Mesa, Arizona, GECO was first established in 1995. Mercury wants to use the acquisition…
Editor's NoteElectric Avionics In 2017, when I first started covering Uber’s Elevate division and its plan to make electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxis a reality by the early to mid-2020s, the industry…
ConnectivityCollins Avionics Chief Explains Future Vision with UTC Kent Statler has arguably one of the most exciting new jobs as a result of United Technologies’ (UTC) $30 billion acquisition of Rockwell Collins to form Collins Aerospace. The new company is…