MilitaryTu-160M2 Blackjack Takes First Flight with New Turbofan Engines The Russian Tu-160M2 Blackjack, a supersonic variable-sweep wing heavy strategic bomber, completed its first flight with new serial NK-32-02 turbofan engines at Kazan Aviation Plant S.P. Gorbunov, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) announced…
Business & GAFAA Privacy ICAO Program Gains Foothold, But Extent Limited Thus Far Last November, New Hampshire-based Private Jet Services (PGS) Group warned that aviation hobbyists, crowdsourced websites, and hackers were intercepting flight data using private Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) receivers—available for as little as…
Business & GAAirbus Sees Mixed Segment Results While Launching New Business Jet as Pandemic Persists Airbus published its financial and operational results through the first nine months of 2020, showing mixed performance across various market segments status including their defense division’s increase in new orders, the launch…
Business & GABye Aerospace Gets Investment from South Korean Aerospace9 Aerospace9, an information and technology company based in South Korea, has agreed to purchase 300 of Bye Aerospace’s all-electric aircraft, according to a Nov. 2 press release. The agreement marks an important…
LongshotsAFRL Recruits Purdue and Notre Dame for Hypersonic Research The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is partnering with Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame to conduct hypersonic research in key areas including the transition from laminar to turbulent flow,…
ATM ModernizationWhat's Trending in Aerospace - November 1, 2020 Check out the Nov. 1 edition of What's Trending in Aerospace, where editors and contributors for Avionics International bring you some of the latest headlines happening across the global aerospace industry. Commercial IAG Outlines…
ConnectivityPODCAST: Seamless Air Alliance CEO Talks OpenIFC Release 2 On this episode of the Connected Aircraft Podcast, Jack Mandala, CEO of Seamless Air Alliance (SAA), joins to discuss the organization’s latest in-flight connectivity standard, “OpenIFC” Release 2.0. Seamless Air Alliance was…
CommercialBoeing Expects 737 MAX Regulatory Approvals, Delivery Restart in Fourth Quarter Boeing expects regulatory approval of the 737 MAX's return to service to occur before the end of the year, according to comments made by David Calhoun, the company’s president and CEO during…