CommercialUniversal Avionics is Taking Flight Management Digital with Its Software-Based Interactive FMS Universal Avionics' next-generation flight management system will be a software-based solution based on an integrated modular avionics infrastructure, the company revealed at the Paris Air Show this week. The ClearVision Interactive-FMS augments…
Embedded AvionicsMillennials Ready to Embrace Autonomous Aircraft, New Global Study Finds More than 80 percent of young adults ages 18 to 24 would be comfortable as a passenger on a self-flying aircraft at some point in their lifetime, according to the results of…
CommercialRolls-Royce Buys Siemens' eAircraft Business to Jolt Electrification Efforts Rolls-Royce has agreed to purchase Siemens' electric and hybrid-electric aerospace propulsion activities in an undisclosed deal that the power systems company expects to be completed late this year. Siemens' electric aircraft business…
Business & GAPersonal Airline Exchange Orders 50 Ampaire Electric Aircraft for On-Demand Charter Service Just two weeks after Ampaire’s successful flight tests of its twin-engine hybrid-electric EEL commuter aircraft, Personal Airline Exchange (PAX) has placed an order for 50 of the retrofitted Cessna 337s, with an…
CommercialSales, Services, Saying Sorry: Boeing's Big Paris Air Show Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg admitted Sunday in Paris that the company "clearly had [made] a mistake in the implementation of the alert" on the 737 MAX and in its public communications concerning…
ConnectivityCurtiss Wright CTO Talks Reality of Cyber Threats to Connected Avionics Systems SAN DIEGO – During the 2019 Global Connected Aircraft Summit, Avionics International discussed emerging cyber security threats to connected avionics systems becoming a reality as more high speed internet protocol (IP)-based connectivity…
ATM ModernizationFAA Researching Use of Airplane Connectivity for SWIM SAN DIEGO — The FAA wants to use the increased presence of faster air-to-ground and satellite-based internet connectivity links on air transport aircraft to optimize the sharing of airspace system information among airlines,…
ConnectivitySES Developing New Satellites, Service Models for Airplane Connectivity SAN DIEGO — SES wants to use its next generation satellite constellation, O3b mPOWER, to provide increased capacity to airlines for in-flight connectivity, while also considering how to establish a new end-to-end…