CommercialAirbus Completes First A321XLR Test Flight, Targets 2024 Entry into Service Airbus completed a successful first test flight of the A321XLR in Germany, the Toulouse-based aircraft manufacturer announced Wednesday. The A321XLR is the latest extra-long range variant of the Airbus A320 family that…
Air TaxiOverair Just Received $145 Million in Funding for eVTOL Development Overair, the Santa Ana, California-based electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) startup, just announced that it is receiving $145 million in funding for continued eVTOL development. The funding comes from the aerospace…
Air TaxiJoby Receives Part 135 Certificate From FAA Ahead of Schedule – UPDATED The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Joby Aviation a Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate, permitting Joby to begin on-demand commercial operations with air taxis. The company originally expected to receive the certificate…
Air TaxiAutoFlight Releases Test Flight Footage of Its Second Proof-of-Concept eVTOL The company AutoFlight, electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft developer, released a new video of its Prosperity I vehicle’s full-scale, proof-of-concept test flight last week. Mark Henning, Managing Director of AutoFlight…
MilitaryUS Air Force to Upgrade C-5M Super Galaxy Cockpit Controls and Displays The U.S. Air Force is upgrading its fleet of C-5M Super Galaxy Transport aircraft with new cockpit displays under a recently announced contract with Intellisense Systems, a Torrance, California-based supplier of aircraft…
ATM ModernizationInmarsat Tests Signals for United Kingdom Positioning, Navigation and Timing System A team of U.K. companies led by Inmarsat has broadcast a satellite navigation signal in a project to explore a United Kingdom sovereign positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) system. Inmarsat announced Wednesday the signal…
CommercialRaytheon Technologies Moving Global Headquarters To Northern Virginia Raytheon Technologies on Tuesday said it will establish its global headquarters in Northern Virginia, close to many of its government customers in the Washington, D.C., area, a move that follows Boeing’s decision a…
Embedded AvionicsCoreAVI, DDC-I Target Development of Next Generation Avionics Apps with New RTOS Graphics Platform Phoenix, Arizona-based operating systems and software supplier DDC-I, Inc. and CoreAVI, the Tampa, Florida-based provider of safety critical computing, have partnered to introduce a new integrated avionics real-time operating system (RTOS) graphics…
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