ConnectivityBombardier Signs Up for 6 More Years of IBM Cloud, IBM Watson Bombardier is extending its partnership with IBM through a six-year contract worth some $700 million. The manufacturer would retain use of IBM Services and IBM Cloud management for its worldwide information technology…
Business & GANew Garmin HUD for Textron Features Synthetic Vision Garmin is set to provide Textron Aviation with a new head-up display (HUD) for super-midsize, midsize and light business aircraft, Garmin said. That includes incorporation on the new super-midsize Cessna Citation Longitude.…
CommercialGoDirect Could Save Money for Cathay Pacific's A330 Fleet A successful Honeywell GoDirect trial showed Cathay Pacific that the airline could save hundreds of thousands of dollars in operations and maintenance costs across its fleet of Airbus A330s, Honeywell said. This…
ConnectivityHalf of Millennials Say No Inflight Wi-Fi is a Deal-Breaker, Gogo Says Gogo said that almost 50% of “millennial travelers expect their connected experience in the air to be the same as on the ground.” The company’s study, called The Travelers of Tomorrow, focuses…
Embedded AvionicsAurora Proves Robot Co-Pilot can Fly a Boeing 737 Aurora Flight Sciences continued to push the boundaries of what might be possible in future commercial aircraft cockpits with the most recent successful flight demonstration of its work as part of Defense…
CommercialRockwell Collins Sticks to Manned Aviation Roots in Commercial UAS Market Rockwell Collins avionics have been supporting U.S. military unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for years. The company supports the Army’s RQ-7B Shadow and the Navy’s RQ-21 Blackjack, to name a couple — not…
CommercialKittyhawk Drone Flight Deck Keeps DJI GO Data Domestically Stored Venture-backed unmanned aircraft system software company Kittyhawk has launched a product for DJI drones. It plans for more hardware partners down the road, but Josh Ziering, co-founder and chief pilot of Kittyhawk,…
CommercialUPS Brings Epic Avionics to Airbus A300s UPS is revitalizing the cockpit avionics and embedded computing architecture of its Airbus A300 aircraft with a new flight management computer, central maintenance system and better processing power. The international air cargo…