CommercialAir France Replaces Manual Aircraft Data Collection with e-Aircraft Air France’s Airbus fleet is currently using Sitaonair e-Aircraft DataCapture, Sitaonair said. The solution can help airlines optimize staffing resources and reduce the time aircraft spend on the ground. Air France has…
Embedded AvionicsQinetiQ, Rockwell Collins to Develop New GNSS Receivers Under a new partnership, QinetiQ and Rockwell Collins will develop next generation multi-constellation Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers. Both companies see the new partnership developing a family of GNSS receivers…
ConnectivityAirbus is Using IIoT to Improve Manufacturing Airbus is using the concept of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to improve its internal manufacturing process. According to a new article published in Forum Magazine, the Airbus internal company magazine,…
MilitaryDARPA, Boeing Spaceplane Would be New Class of Hypersonic Aircraft What do you get when you mix a business jet with a rocket? Presumably, it would result in Phantom Express, Boeing and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) XS-1 program…
ConnectivityChina’s HAECO Component Overhaul Becomes Panasonic-Authorized HAECO Component Overhaul (Xiamen) Ltd. has become an authorized Panasonic Avionics repair center, the China-based company said. It can now service Panasonic in-flight entertainment and communications (IFEC) technology. “HAECO has a proven…
Business & GAM600 Receives 5th Certification in Less than 12 Months Piper Aircraft Inc.’s M600 has received EASA certification, the company said. “This is the fifth certification the M600 has received in less than a year from aviation authorities around the world,” said…
ATM ModernizationRaytheon Finishes Upgrading New York TRACON Ahead of Schedule Raytheon has completed modernizing air traffic control (ATC) services for the New York area, including JFK, LaGuardia, Newark, Teterboro and other smaller airfields. The company said the completion is six months ahead…
Embedded AvionicsMHI Aerospace Systems Corp. Chooses QGen for Throttle Quadrant Assembly Research MHI Aerospace Systems Corp., a member of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group, has tapped AdaCore to support Throttle Quadrant Assembly (TQA) system research, AdaCore said. The company’s QGen toolset is to generate code,…