Air TaxiAirbus’ Vahana Demonstrator to Complete Flight Test Campaign This Year Airbus A³'s Vahana demonstrator aircraft, which has been flying since January 2018, recently completed its 100th test flight and is on track to complete its test flight portfolio by the end of…
Embedded AvionicsSOSA Briefing Outlines Future Defense Sensor System Architectures A Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) technical standard briefing at the Association of the United States Army annual conference outlined the future embedded computing design approach to developing and upgrading electronic warfare,…
Embedded AvionicsFARA Proposals Feature Modular Open Systems Approach for Avionics Company proposals for the U.S. Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) competition tout their compliance with the service's desired modular open systems approach (MOSA) digital backbone to allow plug and play capabilities…
ATM ModernizationEurocontrol to Keep CPDLC ‘Black List’ Avionics Policy in Place Long-Term Eurocontrol recently changed the way operators apply for classification of their aircraft to the operations ready list for the use of controller to pilot data link communications (CPDLC) in certain areas of…
Air TaxiPorsche and Boeing to Explore ‘Premium’ Urban Air Mobility Market The latest auto company to invest in the urban air mobility space is Porsche, signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Boeing to explore the premium urban air mobility market, according to the…
MilitaryLockheed Martin Unveils Raider X FARA Design Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky unveiled its Raider X design for the U.S. Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) on Oct. 14 at the Association of the United States Army annual conference. Raider X…
CommercialPartner Content: Honeywell Engineering Fellow Talks Preventing Runway Excursions, Incursions Part 2 In the second part of our interview with Yasuo Ishihara, one of the senior engineers behind the development of Honeywell’s SmartRunway and SmartLanding systems, he explains where this crucial technology for mitigating…
CommercialPartner Content: Honeywell Engineering Fellow Talks About Reducing the Risk of Runway Excursions, Incursions Part 1 For more than a decade runway incursions and excursions have been a major priority for the aviation industry. Whilst high profile incidents such as Flight 759 KSFO Taxiway incident and the Flight 8667 excursion…