CommercialLufthansa CEO Sees Clean Air Initiatives Driving Renewed Energy for Single European Sky Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr called for more competition between air navigation service providers (ANSPs) in Europe to encourage efficiency improvements within the region’s air traffic system during a Jan. 21 appearance on…
MilitaryBoeing Advanced Vertical Lift Chief Engineer Talks Next Generation Rotorcraft Capabilities The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will be focusing on cost, timeline, sustainment, interoperability, and regulatory approvals when developing the requirements for its Next Generation Rotorcraft Capabilities (NGRC). The shift in focus…
CommercialCurtiss-Wright, Honeywell Achieve EASA Certification on Connected Cockpit Voice Recorder Curtiss-Wright Corp. and Honeywell Aerospace received a technical standard order (TSO) certification from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for their jointly developed cockpit voice recorder (CVR), the Honeywell Connected Recorder-25…
Air TaxiAgility Prime to Study the Use of Radar Developed for Cars in eVTOLs The U.S. Air Force awarded a contract to study a radar sensing solution, the SPEKTRA radar, used by the automotive industry to see if it can be modified for electric vertical take-off…
UnmannedUsing Artificial Intelligence to Counter Cybersecurity Threats for Drones Drones can now be equipped with cybersecurity powered by artificial intelligence (AI). SparkCognition and SkyGrid announced a new partnership to protect drones from zero-day attacks by installing an airspace management system that…
CommercialWhat's Trending in Aerospace - January 17, 2021 Check out the Jan. 17 edition of What's Trending in Aerospace, where editors and contributors for Avionics International bring you some of the latest headlines and updates happening across the global aerospace industry.…
CommercialAerion to Equip AS2 Supersonic Business Jet with ClearVision HUD ClearVision Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) and complete Head-Up Display (HUD) will be used on Aerion AS2, the supersonic business jet from Aerion Supersonic, Universal Avionics (UA) announced in a Jan. 6…
Air TaxiFormer Airbus CEO Joins Board of German Electric Air Taxi Startup Lilium Tom Enders, the former CEO of Airbus, is joining the board of directors for German electric air taxi developer Lilium after being asked to take the position by the startup’s co-founder a…