MilitaryThales Acquires Moog’s Navigation Aids Business Thales on Monday closed its acquisition of a Moog business unit that designs, develops and manufactures ground and ship-based radio frequency navigation beacons and related antennas for commercial and military aircraft operators.…
Air TaxiAirflow Partners with Pipistrel for Proof-of-Concept Electric-Propulsion Aircraft Airflow, electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft company, recently announced a partnership with Pipistrel, aircraft designer and manufacturer of the world’s first and currently the only type-certified electric airplane. In this…
CommercialFrontier Airlines Makes AFIRS Investment for Airbus A320neo Fleet Frontier Airlines is adding FLYHT’s Automated Flight Information Reporting System (AFIRS) to the Airbus A320 and A321 that it currently has on order, a move that will allow the Denver, Colorado-based low-cost…
ConnectivityOneWeb and GDC to Develop LEO In-Flight Connectivity Terminal for Commercial Aircraft London-based Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation operator OneWeb has partnered with GDC Technics' California-based aviation engineering and technical services provider GDC Advanced Technology to create a new In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) terminal that…
CommercialChina Issues Airworthiness Directive for Boeing 737 MAX System and Manual Changes China's civil aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), on Thursday issued its final airworthiness directive (AD) outlining the flight manual and hardware and software changes required for lifting its…
CommercialFormer Bombardier President Sees Promising Future in Autonomous Aircraft in New Role with Xwing Fred Cromer, former president of Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, has worked in several challenging roles across different segments of aviation and will be taking on another exciting challenge in his new role as…
Air TaxiNew Joint Venture Company to Create World’s First Custom Public Vertical Mobility System Volocopter announced a new joint venture company this week with NEOM, an enterprise that is developing a “smart city” on the coast of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea. The joint venture company was…
Air TaxiExpansion, Integration, and Acceptance of Urban Air Mobility Vehicles in the EU At the virtual relaunch of the European Network of U-Space Stakeholders this week, Jacek Woznikowski, Director of the Department of Socio-Economic Development and Cooperation in Metropolis GZM, Poland, spoke on the topics…