CommercialCOVID-19 Crisis Highlights Possible Utility of Drone Cargo Deliveries The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the possible utility of drones in beyond visual line of sight operations for the remote delivery of medical and other supply payloads up to 50 kilograms. "We…
Air TaxiSumitomo Acquires Stake in OneSky, Adding UTM to Japanese Air Mobility Mission Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo Corporation has acquired a stake in OneSky Systems, a developer of unmanned traffic management (UTM) services and analytics, as part of its Series A fundraise. Sumitomo recently partnered with…
UnmannedWill the FAA Establish a New Commercial Drone Avionics Mandate? The growth in commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)– and the increasing integration of drones into controlled airspace – has raised concerns with manned aircraft operators, air traffic controllers
CommercialFAA, EASA: Cybersecurity Challenge Over the last five years, central aviation authorities and aviation industry experts have been warning of the danger of cyber-attacks on airliners and other aircraft with wireless, next generation
CommercialDatalink, IPv6 Transition: Among Avionics Standards Under AEEC Development The Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) of the SAE Industry Technologies Consortia’s ARINC Industry Activities (ARINC-IA) program presently has 17 new project papers in the works and is busy
Editor's NoteCOVID-19 Technology Break Since the second week of March, updates on the COVID-19 coronavirus has dominated all Avionics coverage on almost a daily basis, and rightly so, as the impact this virus has had on…
CommercialEurope's 2020 ADS-B & COVID-19 Updates Regulators in Europe expect 76 percent of the region’s EASA-registered fleet of airplanes to be equipped with transponders and other enabling equipment necessary to comply the EASA June 7th, 2020 deadline
CommercialKeeping Track of GADSS: Everything You Need to Know About ICAO's GADSS Delay Initially, the second phase of the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) Autonomous Distress Tracking (ADT) mandate was berthed as part of its Global Aeronautical Distress and Safety System