CommercialIATA, WMO to Expand Aircraft Weather Observation Program The International Air Transport Assn. (IATA) has agreed to a new arrangement that will help expand a global aviation weather monitoring system that currently produces 700,000 weather observations per day. Under a new…
ConnectivityPanasonic Avionics Boosts In-flight Connectivity Over Canada To provide Panasonic Avionics with added capacity to address growing customer demand for its in-flight Connectivity service, Hunter Communications and Eutelsat Americas announced the expansion of their multi-transponder contract on the Eutelsat…
ATM ModernizationNATS to Host Live Digital Event on ATM Modernization If you want to discuss the future of ATM with NATS, you should mark July 13 on your calendar. At 9 a.m. BST (4 a.m. EST), Searidge Technologies’ CTO and co-founder, Alex…
MilitarySukhoi Superjet 100 Displays Shorter Takeoff Ability with Improved Avionics Sukhoi Civil Aircraft’s Superjet 100 can take off from short runways, Sukhoi said. Proven during certification, this takeoff ability was tested at Stockholm Bromma Airport. “Since the beginning of July 2017, Sukhoi…
CommercialICAO Meets with Ethiopia, Discusses Need for Aviation Growth in Africa ICAO Council’s president, Dr. Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu, met with Ethiopia’s president, prime minister and ministers of foreign affairs and transport, ICAO said. During the meeting, Ethiopian President H.E Mulatu Teshome and Prime…
CommercialBoeing and FedEx Partner for Latest EcoDemonstrator Boeing and FedEx Express said they want to accelerate aerospace innovation, so they have agreed to collaborate on the next ecoDemonstrator. In 2018, a FedEx Boeing 777 freighter is set to start…
ConnectivityAeroMobile Sees User Base Grow as 60% of Airlines Offer 3.5G AeroMobile now has 100 aircraft on its 3.5G mobile network, parent company Panasonic Avionics said. According to Panasonic, 60% of airlines offer 3.5G in-flight connectivity, and AeroMobile’s user base grew 57% between…
MilitaryUkraine Transport Maker Seeks US Partnership Ukrainian aircraft maker Antonov has told visiting U.S. members of Congress that it wants to cooperate with America in developing a new medium-weight, short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft based on its four-propfan An-70 tactical military…