Business & GANTSB Calls on OEMs to Equip Turbine Helicopters with Flight Data, Image Recorders The National Transportation Safety Board is calling on helicopter builders to equip turbine-powered rotorcraft with crash-resistant flight data recorders and crash-protected image recorders to provide data, audio and images to improve crash…
Air TaxiHoneywell Creates New Business Unit for Drones and Urban Air Mobility Honeywell has created a new business unit dedicated to unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and urban air mobility (UAM), the company announced, with dedicated engineering and sales resources, valuing the hardware and software…
ATM ModernizationSatellite Connectivity to Enable New ’Pop-Up UTM’ Service for Drones Inmarsat and Altitude Angel are collaborating on a new approach to surveillance that they describe as ‘Pop-Up UTM’ (Unmanned Traffic Management), which could serve as a catalyst for enabling more beyond visual…
ConnectivityDuncan Aviation, Gogo Add AVANCE Installation Options for Business Aircraft Duncan Aviation said earlier this month that it is partnering with Gogo to offer new installation options for the Gogo AVANCE L3 Wi-Fi system and the Gogo AVANCE Smart Cabin System (SCS).…
IIOTPipistrel Receives First EASA Certification for an Electric Aircraft. Who's Next? Pipistrel’s two-seat Velis Electro was awarded type certification by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on June 10, the first electric aircraft in the world to do so. Derived from the…
CommercialHALO Sensor Advances IoT Concept of Wireless Cabin Air Quality Monitoring L2 Aviation and IPVideo Corp. introduced a patent-pending HALO smart air quality monitoring system designed to provide an Internet of Things (IoT) approach to cabin air quality monitoring during a June 9…
CommercialAvionics Receivers Will Need to Process L5 and L1 Signals for GPS III Aircraft will need to have avionics receivers able to process the legacy L1 signal and the most recent L5 signal to take advantage of the precision location advances in the Global Positioning…
Air TaxiIt’s Time to Consider the Broader Socioeconomic Impact of Air Taxis Just about every company working on electric air taxis boldly proclaims its mission as tackling urban congestion and reclaiming commuters’ time, or more broadly — and vaguely — enabling cheaper, safer access…