Business & GAWhat's Trending in Aerospace - September 13, 2020 Check out the Sep. 13 edition of What's Trending in Aerospace, where editors and contributors for Avionics International bring you some of the latest headlines happening across the global aerospace industry. Commercial…
CommercialDo Commercial Airline Passengers Need More Education on Cabin Health Concerns? Does the average commercial airline passenger have a good enough understanding of how airplane cabin air recirculation systems work to fly without concerns of catching COVID-19 from touching a surface or contact…
CommercialAirbus CEO Bets on Future Benefits of Digital Design Investments Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury was asked a key question about the French aerospace manufacturer’s investment in digital design initiatives during the company’s half-year 2020 results call July 30 that featured an exchange…
ATM ModernizationWhat's Trending in Aerospace - July 5, 2020 Welcome to the first edition of What's Trending in Aerospace, where editors and contributors for Avionics International bring you some of the top headlines and stories across various segments of the global…
CommercialUK Prime Minister: Britain Should Develop World’s First Net Zero Long-Haul Passenger Jet UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a speech on June 30 challenged the British aerospace industry to produce the world’s first “net zero” long-haul passenger plane, with promise that the government will…
CommercialAirbus Concludes ATTOL Project That Featured 'World-First' Automated Takeoffs and Landings Airbus is concluding a two-year effort, the Autonomous Taxi, Take-Off and Landing (ATTOL) project, that featured two world-firsts for the aviation industry: fully automatic vision-based takeoffs and landings, controlled using on-board image…
MilitaryFlexible Neural Networks Needed for FCAS, Airbus Official Says Flexible, neural networks will be a feature of the Airbus-Dassault Aviation Future Combat Air System (FCAS), an Airbus official said last week. On May 14, Airbus and the Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for…
Air TaxiVoom Ceases Operations (Mostly) Due to COVID-19, Airbus Declares Victory Airbus’ urban air mobility operations company, Voom, has ceased operating, CEO Clément Monnet said in a LinkedIn post, citing the COVID-19 pandemic as its cause of death, though he mentioned challenges associated…
CommercialAirbus, Boeing Make Production Decisions Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Airbus partially resumed assembly and production work in France and Spain on March 23, while Boeing will temporarily suspend the majority of its U.S.-based airplane production activity beginning March 25 as the…
MilitaryCoast Guard’s MH-65 Program Enters Full Rate Production For New Configuration The Coast Guard’s MH-65 helicopter program has been approved to enter full-rate production to the “E” configuration, which will include avionics upgrades for the fleet of 98 aircraft that will run concurrently…
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