Business & GATurbine, Traditional After years on the drawing board, the Robinson Helicopter Co. (RHC) R66 Turbine in October 2010 was granted FAA certification. The latest in Robinson’s phenomenally successful line of single-engine helicopters, it is…
ATM ModernizationIssues in ATM Demand for air travel is returning, and passenger traffic is expected to double in the coming decades. In the United States, Europe and elsewhere, a fundamental shift is taking place in air-traffic…
ATM ModernizationProduct Focus: Antennas For most passengers, in-flight entertainment has morphed from looking out the window to watching on-demand movies, playing video games or connecting to the Internet. The shift in in-flight behavior is prompting many…
ATM ModernizationNew Products EO/IR Sensor Payload Schiebel Aircraft GmbH, of Vienna, Austria, and Wescam L-3 Communications, of Burlington, Ontario, announced the first flight of a Camcopter S-100 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the Wescam MX-10…
ATM ModernizationQ&A: Airbus’s Olivier De La Burgade Olivier De La Burgade Aviation industry stakeholders from Air Navigation Service Providers to aircraft manufacturers and component suppliers increasingly are focused on the interaction of ground and airborne systems to improve operational…
Business & GATUIfly to Deploy navAero EFB TUIfly Nordic selected the tBag C22 Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) from navAero on its B737-800 and B767-300 fleets. The contracted navAero EFB architecture includes cross-connected dual tBagC22 EFB systems with the tPad 2000…
CommercialAAI Tests SSAASy on Shadow UAS AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems completed an unmanned flight demonstration of a Small Sense and Avoid System (SSAASy) on a Shadow 200 Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). The flight was conducted by AAI and…
CommercialRockwell Collins UAS Systems Hit Milestone Rockwell Collins this Tuesday its Athena family of flight control and navigation systems recently exceeded 1 million flight hours on several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) performing surveillance operations primarily in the Middle…