CommercialEarly Adopters Already Benefiting from Skywise, Airbus Says Airbus has collaborated with Palantir Technologies for Skywise, a new data platform. Airbus said it provides users with one single access point to their enriched data by collecting it from multiple sources…
MilitaryAirbus Taps Leonardo for German, Spanish Typhoon Fleets Airbus has contracted Leonardo to provide avionics maintenance for both German and Spanish Eurofighter Typhoon fleets, Leonardo said. The new contracts, worth more than $111.6 million, cover all repairs projected to arise…
ConnectivityNew A320 Interior Includes More Space, Modular IFE Platform Airbus has launched a new A320 interior, the manufacturer said. Elements of the design include: The Airspace Bin, which Airbus said is “the largest overhead storage compartment in its class. It has…
CommercialVietJet Chooses to Equip More A320s with Honeywell APUs VietJet has signed on for 98 Honeywell 131-9A auxiliary power units (APU) for its new fleet of Airbus A320s, Honeywell said. The airline's existing fleet of A320s are already supplied with Honeywell…
CommercialAirbus: Aviation Needs 550,000 Maintenance Engineers by 2036 With the global fleet of in-service commercial aircraft projected to double by 2036, Airbus is projecting the industry will need 550,000 new aircraft maintenance engineers to maintain those new airframes. The airframe…
CommercialAirbus CTO Sees Electric Aircraft Drastically Changing Commercial Aviation In the near future, commercial aviation could see disruptive technologies, such as airline cabin passenger configurable modules, autonomous air taxis and a hybrid electric powered airframe the size of an A320,…
ConnectivityExperts Discuss Latest In-Flight Connectivity Trends Emerging global connectivity capabilities will be one of the biggest drivers for new in-flight applications — especially on the operations side — according to speakers at a Washington Space Business Roundtable (WSBR)…
ConnectivityAirbus is Using IIoT to Improve Manufacturing Airbus is using the concept of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to improve its internal manufacturing process. According to a new article published in Forum Magazine, the Airbus internal company magazine,…
CommercialUPS Brings Epic Avionics to Airbus A300s UPS is revitalizing the cockpit avionics and embedded computing architecture of its Airbus A300 aircraft with a new flight management computer, central maintenance system and better processing power. The international air cargo…
ConnectivityThis Company Wants to Turn Airplanes into Communications Satellites A Simi Valley, California company believes commercial airplanes could become the communications satellites that the telecommunications industry has been craving. Backed by leadership that has achieved aviation industry firsts in the past…