MilitaryF-35 Symposium Hosts 90 Senior Officers, Aircraft Experts Pacific Air Forces’ inaugural F-35 Symposium featured the largest gathering of fifth-generation warfighters in history, Pacific Air Forces said. Concluding last Friday, more than 90 senior officers and Lockheed Martin F-35 experts…
Embedded AvionicsHoneywell FANS 1/A+ Receives FAA STC for Challenger 601 Honeywell’s future air navigation system (FANS) has received a supplemental type certificate (STC) for the Bombardier Challenger 601-3A/3R, Honeywell says. This system meets FAA’s NextGen FANS1/A+ mandate. The controller pilot data link…
CommercialDLR, MUAC, Deutsche Lufthansa Conduct Emissions, Contrails tests on GEnx Engines Flight experiments have been conducted to measure emissions and contrails of General Electric’s GEnx engines during en-route cruising, Eurocontrol says. Research was done by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in close cooperation…
CommercialDrones Came Too Close to Airplanes 1,800 Times in 2016 Testimony given by Earl Lawrence, the director of the FAA’s unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) integration office, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on Wednesday noted pilots of…
ATM ModernizationWhite House 2018 Budget Calls for Privatization of Air Traffic Control The White House’s fiscal year 2018 Budget Blueprint calls for the privatization of air traffic control. “The President’s 2018 Budget initiates a multi-year reauthorization proposal to shift the air traffic control function…
MilitaryA Day in the Life of a US Air Force Drone Pilot The U.S. Air Force selected 30 enlisted airmen for the next phase of drone pilot training for the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk last week. Originally, only officers could fly the Global…
ATM ModernizationFrench Air Nav Provider to Assess Aireon ADS-B Aireon has signed a memorandum of understanding with France’s air navigation service provider for space-based ADS-B, Aireon says. Direction des Services de la Navigation Aérienne can now begin evaluating the technical and…
ConnectivityIOT Vendor Teams Up to Expand RTOS Support for MIPS CPU Internet of things vender Green Hills Software and tech company Imagination Technologies have expanded Green Hills tools support for MIPS CPUs, Green Hills says. The support would also be available to the…