Air TaxiPentagon to Leverage Commercial R&D in Hybrid VTOL Aircraft for Logistics Officials from the Pentagon and White House emphasized their support and interest in the ongoing development of revolutionary electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft at the Transformative Vertical Flight conference last…
MilitaryHandheld Viasat Radio to Provide Link 16 Connectivity for Close Air Support and Other Missions California-based Viasat has received a $90 million Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (ID/IQ) contract from United States Air Force (USAF) Life Cycle Management Center at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio to provide USAF special forces with the…
Embedded AvionicsCheck Out The December/January 2020 Issue! Our new December/January 2020 issue is published, with five in-depth new articles focusing on all aspects of embedded computing trends currently happening across various segments of the global aviation electronics industry. In…
Air TaxiUber’s Aerial Rideshare Project ‘Entering the Next Phase’ SAN JOSE, Ca. — When Uber published a white paper in 2016 promising to build an affordable aerial rideshare service with all-electric aircraft, many viewed the project with the same seriousness as…
CommercialWizz Air Becomes First European Airline to Use SITAONAIR ACARS Over IP Wizz Air, a Budapest, Hungary-based operator of more than 100 Airbus A320s, has become Europe’s first airline to start using SITAONAIR’s aircraft communication, addressing and reporting system (ACARS) over Internet Protocol (IP),…
Air TaxiMercury Systems Unveils Multicore Processor Module for Helicopters, UAM Vehicles Mercury Systems, Inc. on Jan. 20 unveiled its EnsembleSeries™ CIOE-1390 module for helicopters and urban air mobility vehicles. The company hailed the CIOE-1390 as "the industry’s first commercially-available compute module with Intel® Atom®…
Air TaxiInterview: How Uber Views Electric VTOL Aircraft, UAM Operations and Safety Uber’s future aerial rideshare product, which it expects to launch commercially in 2023 in three cities, has gained significant ground in the past few months. The addition of automaker Hyundai and Joby…
Commercial737 MAX Special Committee Report Seeks FAA Workforce, Design Review Improvements A new 68-page report published by the independent special committee tasked with reviewing the certification process followed by the FAA and Boeing for the 737 MAX found a major need for workforce…
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