Business & GANASA Starts Wind Tunnel Tests for Lockheed Martin X-plane Design To have the luxury of flying in a supersonic passenger jet would seem a thing of airport daydreams. But now that NASA and Lockheed Martin have started wind-tunnel testing the X-plane design,…
RegulationUK Drone Safety App Reaches 10,000 Users NATS’ drone-safety app, Drone Assist, has garnered 10,000 new users in 10 weeks, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) entity says. As the U.K. continues its efforts to regulate drone use, NATS (which…
Business & GARockwell Collins Exec Sees Business Jet Avionics ‘Headwinds’ Continuing On the same day that the General Aviation Manufacturers Assn.’s (GAMA) state of the industry report showed the number of business jet deliveries in 2016 were at the lowest level since…
ATM ModernizationEurocontrol's Conclusions, Action Items from Final Approach Operations Symposium The International Civil Aviation Org. (ICAO), EASA and Eurocontrol jointly chaired the Final Approach Operations Symposium, which took place from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2 at Eurocontrol headquarters in Brussels. Eurocontrol released…
Embedded AvionicsWhat to Expect at Aviation Electronics Europe 2017 The premier annual conference and exhibition for the international avionics community, Aviation Electronics Europe, is approaching with a highly focussed Main Conference Program, as well as a series of Technical Workshops…
Embedded AvionicsLufthansa Systems Receives EASA Approval for Lido/SurfaceData Lufthansa Systems has launched Lido/SurfaceData, thanks to an EASA certification, the company says. The new product delivers precise worldwide obstacle data to software providers and avionics manufacturers in the form of a…
Business & GABusiness Jet Shipments Down Nearly 8% in 2016, GAMA Reports The number of business jets shipped in 2016 is down 7.9% from 2015, the General Aviation Manufacturers Assn. (GAMA) reports. In 2015, GAMA’s General Aviation Aircraft Shipment Report showed that 718 business…
ATM ModernizationAireon Gets into Initial Space-Based ADS-B Testing Now that the first 10 satellites of the Iridium NEXT constellation have launched, Aireon can begin the initial process of testing and validating its space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) global air…