CommercialJuneyao Completes China’s First ADS-B In Flight Trial The demonstration was performed using three Airbus A321s on approach to Shanghai’s Hongquiao International Airport. Each of the A321s was equipped with cockpit displays that enabled the use of air traffic
Business & GAAEE: Must-Know Avionics Mandates Here are progress updates, challenges and new capabilities for avionics equipage in European airspace you should know about. ADS-B Regulation Under Review The European Regions Airline Association (ERA), a
Business & GASynthetic Vision for Commercial Airliners: Seeing is Believing At 7:53 p.m., Feb. 14, 2018, Boeing Flight Services Campus in Miami, Florida, strapping into the cockpit of a Boeing 787 full-flight simulator, I along with Boeing Associate Technical Fellow Jim Wilkerson…
Embedded AvionicsSynthetic Vision: A Must-Have for the Next Generation of Pilots? This is one of the scenarios in which 24 junior “ab-initio” pilots from Avianca Airlines used synthetic vision to perform a near safe landing — with no prior experience with the equipment.…
ConnectivityBeating the Heat for Emerging Electronics On the leading edge are programs like Intrachip/Interchip Enhanced Cooling (ICECool), the recently completed effort by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to miniaturize and embed cooling
ConnectivityAvionics Supercomputers of the Future The ROCK-2 system from Mercury Systems designed for avionics missions is a good example. It measures (without connectors) just 4.88 by 7.63 by up to 13.18 inches. Yet within this unit, it…
ConnectivityDo Neural Networks Know the Way to Efficient Agriculture? Agronow is spearheading a new revolution it calls Agriculture 5.0, through which it aims to monitor crops by using artificial intelligence, making it possible for all sectors involved in agribusiness — banks, tradings,…
MilitaryB-21 Bomber Software Upgrades are Underway Software deliveries have begun for the U.S. Air Force’s future B-21 Raider bomber. “We’ve delivered the first set of software for the platform,” said Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, military deputy in the Air…