CommercialAvionics a Significant Part of Airbus Helicopters' Business GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – The world of avionics was a wholly different realm–one of steam gauges–when Vought Helicopters started operations in 1969 with just 17 Alouette II and III helicopters and 43…
MilitaryBall Aerospace, Microsoft to Demonstrate Cloud Processing for US Air Force Ball Aerospace and Microsoft were selected to demonstrate agile cloud processing capabilities in support of the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Commercially Augmented Space Inter Networked Operations (CASINO) project. The demonstration will show…
MilitaryAirbus Helicopters Expects to Deliver First H160M by 2026 COLUMBUS, Miss. – During a briefing at one of its U.S.-based helicopter manufacturing facilities, Airbus Helicopters President Romain Trapp said that the company looks forward to the introduction of the H160M for…
CommercialEASA Clarifies Position on Boeing 737 MAX Return to Service On Sept. 27, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) clarified statements it made that were recently published in an article by a publication called Flyers Rights about the process it is currently…
CommercialUpgraded Avionics on UPS Airbus A300s Start Flight Testing in Toulouse Airbus has started flight testing the first of 52 total A300 cargo-carrying aircraft operated by UPS that are being retrofitted with new embedded processing, liquid crystal displays and other Honeywell Primus Epic…
Business & GAStandardAero and Thales Partners on Certification and Distribution of TopMax Display StandardAero and Thales have signed an agreement to work toward certification and distribution of the Thales TopMax Head-Up Display for business aviation aircraft, the companies said on Sept. 26. Kyle Hultquist,…
MilitaryAirbus Points to 5.5 Million Hours of H135 IFR Flight as Key in Offering for Navy Trainer COLUMBUS, Miss.— Airbus Helicopters is pointing to the twin engine H135 helicopter's 5.5 million hours of instrument flight rules (IFR) experience since the year 2000 as a key differentiator in the Navy…
Business & GAWheels Up Acquires Avianis, Sets Sights on Ten-Figure Valuation Private aviation company Wheels Up acquired “certain material assets” of Avianis Systems, LLC, a provider of an advanced flight management system (FMS), as part of a strategy that Wheels Up believes will…