CommercialFacebook Applies Lessons Learned for Aquila’s Second Flight Facebook’s Aquila has taken a second full-scale test flight, the company said. This unmanned aircraft system aims to bring connectivity to areas of the world with outdated or no access to the…
Embedded AvionicsOpinion: Satellite Ownership vs Leasing Capacity for Commercial Airlines There has been a good deal of chatter in the market about satellite ownership (as compared to leasing capacity) for supporting the in-flight connectivity needs of commercial airlines. One might think this…
Embedded AvionicsNew Signal Transceiver Designed to Tackle ‘Most Demanding’ Applications Platform-based test equipment supplier National Instruments (NI), has introduced a baseband model of its second-generation Vector Signal Transceiver (VST). The PXIe-5820 module is the industry’s first baseband VST with 1 GHz of…
ConnectivityNew FMC+ Direct RF Module Increases Bandwidth in Radar Apps Responding to the accelerating trend toward wider bandwidth multi-channel receivers in modern radar systems, Abaco Systems said Thursday the FMC134 FMC+ FPGA Mezzanine Card Direct RF Conversion Module. It brings industry-leading ADC…
CommercialUAC Tests MC-21 Avionics on Maiden Flight Russian airframe manufacturer United Aircraft Corp. completed the maiden flight of the MC-21-300 commercial aircraft at the airfield of Irkutsk Aviation Plant (IAP) May 28. Being a modern aircraft, the MC-21 incorporates…
CommercialAvionics Test Program Set Committee Working Toward ARINC 625-4 An avionics standards-making test equipment committee is currently hard at work, attempting to reinforce the role of test specifications within the overall process of testing and validating functionality and performance or airframe…
Embedded Avionics5 Questions With ALTYS CEO on NextGen/SESAR Test Equipment In recent years, ALTYS Technologies has been one of the key players behind the scenes helping to ensure that the new ground and airborne technologies being deployed — to help airplanes reduce fuel…
CommercialBoeing Engineers to Improve Manufacturing Processes with Georgia Tech Students Boeing and Georgia Institute of Technology have joined forces to open a development research center, Boeing said. There, Boeing researchers and Georgia Tech engineering students will work together to explore automation in…