Editor's NoteInmarsat Forms Partnership with Teledyne to Improve Flight Tracking for European Airlines Inmarsat is partnering with Teledyne Controls in an effort to improve flight tracking for airlines operating in European airspace by leveraging several of their satellite connectivity services for adequately equipped aircraft in…
CommercialCOMAC C919 Achieves Certification in China The Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China’s C919 passenger jet has achieved certification approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of China, according to a Sept. 30 announcement from the company. CAAC’s delivery of…
CommercialWATCH: Eviation’s All-Electric Alice Completes First Flight Eviation’s all-electric commuter aircraft, Alice, completed its first flight on Sept. 27 at the Grant County International Airport in Washington. The aircraft remained airborne for eight minutes at an altitude of 3,500…
CommercialBoeing Agrees to $200M Settlement for Misleading Statements on 737 MAX Flight Control System Boeing and Dennis Muilenburg—who served as president and CEO of the company from July 2015 to December 2019—agreed to pay fines separately under a Sept. 22 settlement announced by the Securities and…
CommercialOPINION: Addressing the Skills Gap in the Aviation Industry The pandemic and the associated fallout from numerous redundancies and furloughs has left the aviation industry struggling to find skilled and qualified personnel to support the ever-increasing demand for flights. Here,…
MilitaryDecision Expected This Year on Future Path for F-35 Engine A Pentagon decision on the future path for the F-35 engine may come this year. Raytheon Technologies‘ Pratt & Whitney F135 equips the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter, but the F-35 program has…
Air TaxiAmpaire Chooses EP Systems to Supply Battery Packs for Hybrid-Electric Eco Caravan Ampaire, a Los Angeles-based company that upgrades existing aircraft to hybrid-electric power, recently announced that it has selected Electric Power Systems to supply propulsion battery packs for the Eco Caravan aircraft. The…
AI & AutonomyKongsberg Geospatial Advances Solutions for Airspace Monitoring and Managing Unmanned Traffic Kongsberg Geospatial, based in Canada, develops software for geospatial visualization and situational awareness that is used for air traffic control and air defense applications. One of Kongsberg's products is IRIS UxS, an…