CommercialBoeing Outlook Shows Need for Nearly 650,000 Airline Maintenance Techs In Boeing's newly released 2017 Pilot and Technician Outlook at Experimental Aircraft Assn. (EAA) AirVenture Oshkosh this week, there is an apparent need for more than 1 million pilots and technicians. This is…
Business & GABendixKing, Genesys Aerosystems AirVenture Oshkosh Day 1 Experimental Aircraft Assn. (EAA) AirVenture Oshkosh exhibitors BendixKing (booth 289) and Genesys Aerosystems (booth 3075) have made announcements the first day of the event. Honeywell’s BendixKing is now an exclusive distributor for…
MilitaryYak-152 Trainer Makes Debut at MAKS 2017 United Aircraft Corp. member Irkut Corp. said it planned to bring two new Yak-152 trainers to MAKS 2017. News reports said that the aircraft did make its debut at the Russian International…
Embedded AvionicsLDRA PowerPC Users Can Upgrade to Latest Version with Assembler Update The U.K.’s LDRA has updated its tool suite for the PowerPC assembler language to support all 32- and 64-bit PowerPC chips, the company said. Customers can now move to the latest versions…
RegulationFAA Overhauls Its Aircraft Certification Ops The U.S. FAA is implementing wholesale changes in its approval of civil aircraft and aviation products through a complete reorganization of its Aircraft Certification Service. Aircraft Certification Service leaders have spent more…
ATM Modernization'Sully' Sullenberger Gives His Stance on ATC Privatization in New Video If you’re wondering how Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III feels about ATC privatization, look no further than this video to answer that question. The video is part of the ATC Not For…
Commercial8 Terms Aerospace Transactions Should Include I am both stunned and grateful. Stunned that so many leaders in the aerospace industry omit even the simplest protections available in commercial documentation of transactions; and grateful because the lack…
CommercialAirbus Defence and Space Tests Jet-Propelled Drone Demonstrator Airbus Defence and Space’s unmanned jet-propelled demonstrator has been successfully tested, Airbus said. Under the SAGITTA project, the drone flew autonomously for seven minutes over the test site in Overberg, South Africa.…