Airbus’ Perlan reached a new high altitude during its second season of flight testing, Airbus said. The Airbus Perlan Mission II aims to fly a glider without an engine to the edge…
Northrop Grumman Corp. is set to upgrade its E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) fleet, operated by the U.S. Air Force, Northrop Grumman said. Existing radio terminals are to…
A U.S. Army memorandum has directed the stoppage of use of all DJI (Dà-Jiāng Innovations) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) technology within the service, sUAS News reported. The memo, as reported by sUAS…
Honeywell is adding features to FlySmart with Airbus electronic flight bag (EFB), the company said. Dispatcher View will give dispatchers the same real-time information that the flight crew has. With the new…
United Technologies Corp. might be thinking about acquiring Rockwell Collins, according to a report from Bloomberg citing “people familiar with the matter.” According to the report, the deal is merely being deliberated, and…
Alta Data Technologies has released its high density XMC MIL-STD-1553 interface card, the company said. The XMC-1553 supports up to 10 channels and “offers the highest 1553 channel count ever offered in…
The FAA’s Data Comm, a controller-to-cockpit modernization program for domestic U.S. airspace, is now being used on 36,000 flights per week at 55 airports and has cleared a total of one million…
SmartSky Networks has initiated deployment of its airborne 4G LTE-based air-to-ground network, the company said. The network should provide speed and capacity 10 times greater than the current standard. SmartSky Network also said…