CommercialWideroe Brings Tailored Avionics Charts to Embraer E2 Displays Norwegian regional airline Wideroe is adding tailored Jeppesen avionics charting to its fleet of Embraer E-190 E2 jets, giving its pilots the ability to use their front-panel avionics and electronic flight bag…
ConnectivityCarlisle Ready to Cool Electronically Steered Antennas for NextGen Satellites LOS ANGELES - Carlisle Interconnect Technologies (CIT) and Ball Aerospace signed a memorandum of understanding at the 2019 Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) EXPO to bring a new cooling flow optimized integration package…
CommercialAirline Cabin 4K IFEC Screen Adoption Still in Earliest Stages LOS ANGELES - At the 2019 Airline Passenger Experience Expo (APEX), Safran announced new 4K cabin screen contracts with both Lufthansa Airlines and ANA for its RAVE ULTRA In-flight Entertainment and…
Air TaxiAutomakers Geely, Daimler Invest in Volocopter for Piece of ‘Future Transit’ Pie Air taxi maker Volocopter closed a $55 million Series C fundraising round, placing the company’s valuation roughly between $220 and $275 million as it looks to launch commercial urban air mobility (UAM)…
MilitaryU.K. Moving to Certify General Atomics Protector Drone for Civil Airspace The United Kingdom is moving toward certifying the General Atomics Protector RG Mk1 drone to fly in civil airspace to perform security-related and disaster response missions, such as responding to fires and…
IIOTFlirtey Wants to Enable Ten Minute Commercial Drone Deliveries WASHINGTON, D.C. — Drone delivery startup Flirtey is enabling rapid point-to-point drone delivery using a new commercial drone, a portable drone launch point and autonomous software that is FAA-approved to allow one…
MilitaryCurtiss-Wright Introduces HUNTR Gateway to Reduce Fratricide, Speed Mission Completion Curtiss-Wright's Massachusetts-based Tactical Communications Group (TCG) has introduced the Hub and Network Translator (HUNTR), a next generation Tactical Data Link (TDL) translator to simplify military communications, reduce fratricide and speed mission completion.…
Business & GAPODCAST: Angela Vargo, VP of Marketing for JSX - SmartSky's Launch Customer California-based JSX, formerly JetSuiteX, is the launch customer for SmartSky’s upcoming air to ground in-flight connectivity network. The public charter provider operates more than 330 flights out of seven airports, with a…