Commercial

Military Maintenance: Meeting the Challenge

 Unlike the U.S.airlines, the U.S. military is still flying and supporting aircraft with avionics systems whose technological heyday is long past. These systems — as well as those of more recent vintage…

Commercial

Q&A: Thales In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity

The market for in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) is making rapid changes, just as the connectivity systems are on the ground. Increasingly, customers are relying more on their own devices, including tablet…

Commercial

Product Focus: Databus and Connector Technologies  

Companies providing support systems, such as data and video buses and connectors, are under pressure to address the shifting technology needs for new and older aircraft. Industry demands for greater bandwidth and…

Editor's Note

New Products

Airborne Servers Kontron launched the next-generation of its ACE Flight 600 general purpose airborne servers product line. The company said the ACE Flight 600 is specifically designed to meet advanced communication application…

Commercial

System Design: Fixing the 787’s Batteries

 Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is a complex design and massive engineering task that few people can truly appreciate. Not only is it an advanced composite structure aircraft with a loaded take-off weight of…

Editor's Note

People

Rob Higby StandardAero appointed Rob Higby vice president, sales and marketing for its Airlines & Fleets (A&F) business. Higby will lead StandardAero’s A&F sales efforts on CFM56, CF34, PW100, PT6, PW600, AE3007…

Business & GA

FreeFlight Radar Altimeter Selected for Eclipse 550

Eclipse Aerospace will use the FreeFlight Systems RA-4000 radar altimeter system as standard equipment for the new production Eclipse 550s. The system, which integrates with the Avio Integration Flight Management Systems, includes the RAD-40 panel-mounted…