CommercialIndustry Must Prove UAM Is Safe for Public Adoption Urban air mobility won't be widely accepted as part of the public's everyday life — something industry is counting on — unless a sterling safety record is a given. Two crashes grounded…
ConnectivityHoneywell Connecting USAF Transports with JetWave Satcom Honeywell will be installing its JetWave satcom system on 70 of the U.S. Air Force's C-17 Globemaster III transport planes. The new deal, whose terms have not been publicly disclosed, will see…
CommercialPODCAST: Alaska Airlines' Director of Fleet Technology, Bret Peyton Episode 10 of #GCAPodcast is here -- and this time, we discuss the current and future use of high speed in-flight connectivity as well as NASA’s Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR) and…
RegulationNew Drone Guidelines Set the Stage for Remote ID The FAA updated the Federal Register with new guidelines for recreational drone use today, bringing the standards more in line with commercial flight and priming the UAS climate for coming remote ID…
CommercialBoeing Finishes MCAS Fix for 737 MAX Boeing's 737 MAX is back in the air — at least for flight testing. The company has completed its software update on the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system (MCAS) system and test flown…
CommercialWhat Uber Is Looking For in a Cost-Effective Urban Transport Vehicle Despite Uber's notoriously ambitious schedule, Director of Aviation Engineering Mark Moore says the company does not need any miracles to get its urban air mobility (UAM) business off the ground — just…
CommercialLufthansa Technik Creates Robot to Test Airbus, Boeing Cockpit Control Panels Editorial Note: This is an excerpt from our article on emerging automated test equipment technologies featured in the May 2019 edition of Avionics International. Check out the full version here. Lufthansa Technik…
CommercialBoom is Using 3DExperience to Digitally Design a Supersonic Airliner LAS VEGAS, NV Boom Supersonic’s Overture commercial airliner will be designed using Dassault Systèmes’ 3DExperience digital engineering design tools, under a partnership announced by the two companies at the 2019 3DExperience Forum.…