CommercialAmerican Airlines Invests in Universal Hydrogen Co. American Airlines announced this week that it has made a strategic investment in Universal Hydrogen Co., joining other investors such as Airbus Ventures, GE Aviation, and Toyota Ventures. The company Universal Hydrogen…
Air TaxiDelta Invests $60M in Joby as Part of New Partnership Delta Air Lines has entered into a long-term partnership with Joby Aviation to launch electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft services. The airline also made an upfront equity investment in Joby…
UnmannedSabrewing CEO Talks Record-Breaking Cargo Drone Hover Flight Sabrewing Aircraft Company, based in California, recently announced the successful completion of its cargo drone prototype’s first hover flight with an 829-pound payload. According to the company, this set a new world…
AI & AutonomyWisk Unveils Its 6th-Generation Autonomous eVTOL Aircraft Wisk Aero just revealed its 6th-generation air taxi, an autonomous electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. The company claims that this vehicle, which is its go-to-market aircraft, is the first autonomous…
CommercialCommercial Aftermarket Services Will Recover to Pre-Pandemic Levels Next Year, New Airbus Report Says A new report published by Airbus expects demand for commercial aircraft aftermarket services to return to pre-pandemic 2019 levels by next year. The annual Airbus Global Services Forecast (GSF) analyzes projected growth…
Embedded AvionicsL3Harris Mission Management Processors Added to Open-Systems Design of Boeing T-7A L3Harris Technologies is supplying its mission-management processors to Boeing for the T-7A Red Hawk under a recently announced $91.5 million contract. The processors will be added to the open systems embedded computing…
ConnectivityUK Regulatory Authority Says Viasat/Inmarsat Merger Could Hurt In-flight Connectivity Competition The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority(CMA) could soon refer Viasat’s pending Inmarsat acquisition to a deeper investigation due to how it might lessen competitiveness in the in-flight connectivity (IFC) market in the U.K. The CMA released results of its…
ATM ModernizationEasyJet Starts In-Flight AirFi Trial, Adds Descent Profile Optimization to A320 Fleet EasyJet, the second largest U.K.-based low-cost airline, will modify its fleet of in-service Airbus A320 jets with a Flight Management System (FMS) software upgrade that will help its pilots reduce fuel burn,…