MilitaryRockwell Collins USAF Upgrades Could Have KC-135s Flying in Their 90s A Boeing KC-135 with Rockwell Collins-upgraded avionics has been delivered to The Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, the guard said. The aircraft received a Block 45…
Business & GAGlass Screens & Widgets Unseen When the Boeing 747-100 entered service in 1970, its three-person flight crew monitored and interacted with the aircraft and its systems through a massively comprehensive cockpit display system (CDS). Leave
Business & GAUpgrade Central: Aircraft Data Acquisition Technology Modern data acquisition technology uses real-time communication and advanced networks to monitor aircraft all over the world. This allows for flight data to still be relayed to crews and inspectors on the
ConnectivityStreamlining With Connectivity Looking at this issue’s cover, you may be wondering what Netflix, Google, Facebook and Visa are doing on there. Amid all the coverage of the technical aspects of airplane computing and data…
Connectivity2017 GCA Summit: Conceptualizing Aviation IOT Keynote speeches from Google, Facebook, Netflix and Visa at the 2017 Global Connected Aircraft Summit (GCAS) showed how aviation’s internet of things (IOT) age is becoming a reality. Facebook wants to use…
Business & GAInside the Next Generation of Business Jet Avionics Gulfstream Aerospace’s G500/600 data concentration network is setting the standard for the next generation of business jet avionics. The OEM is flight testing more aircraft than it ever has at one time
ConnectivityAvionics Upgrades Drive Efficiency — But When and Where? Avionics upgrades run the gamut of cockpit functions. But which will add the most value and when? Which are the most popular and why? Frost & Sullivan pegs retrofit spending in commercial…
CommercialCan Airbus and Boeing Meet Qantas CEO’s Challenge? Qantas Airways CEO Alan Joyce issued a challenge to Airbus and Boeing during the Australian carrier’s 2017 earnings call — build a commercial airplane capable of flying from Melbourne to New York…