MilitaryGE Aerospace Awarded Subcontract To Deliver Avionics Systems For Army’s FLRAA GE Aerospace said Monday it has been awarded a subcontract to deliver avionics systems as part of Bell’s team building the Army’s new Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA). The company noted…
AI & AutonomyBell Reveals Bell Aircraft Laboratory for Future Autonomy Fly-by-Wire Operations - May 7 Fort Worth, TX (May 7, 2024) - Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, today revealed its Aircraft Laboratory for Future Autonomy (ALFA). Developed by Bell's Advanced Programs team, ALFA…
ATM ModernizationBell’s Unmanned APT Aircraft Demonstrates Ground-Based Detect-and-Avoid Flight Bell Textron recently shared the news that their unmanned Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) aircraft successfully completed a demonstration of ground-based detect-and-avoid (DAA) flight. A subsidiary of Textron Inc., Bell was the first…
CommercialWhat's Trending in Aerospace - June 27, 2021 Check out the June 27 edition of What's Trending in Aerospace, where editors and contributors for Avionics International bring you some of the latest headlines and updates happening across the global aerospace industry.…
CommercialWhat's Trending in Aerospace - April 11, 2021 Check out the April 11 edition of What's Trending in Aerospace, where editors and contributors for Avionics International bring you some of the latest headlines and updates happening across the global aerospace industry.…
Air TaxiSumitomo Acquires Stake in OneSky, Adding UTM to Japanese Air Mobility Mission Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo Corporation has acquired a stake in OneSky Systems, a developer of unmanned traffic management (UTM) services and analytics, as part of its Series A fundraise. Sumitomo recently partnered with…
Air TaxiShould Aerospace Be Scared by Hyundai's Move into Urban Air Mobility? South Korean automaker Hyundai continues to snap up talent for its urban air mobility (UAM) division, hiring Michael Whitaker, former deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, as its global head of…
Air TaxiBell Expands Air Taxi Play: AerOS, Digital Infrastructure and All-Electric Nexus ARLINGTON, Texas — Bell has been showing off its ‘Nexus’ hybrid-electric air taxi and ‘APT-70’ tail-sitting cargo drone at industry events for quite a while, but the company is no longer content with…
Air TaxiHow Major Helicopter Manufacturers Are Preparing for the Urban Air Mobility Market The development of electric and hybrid VTOL (eVTOL) aircraft around the world promises to usher in a new era of aerial mobility, changing the cost of access to vertical flight and potentially…
Air TaxiThe Winner of 'Pitch@Revolution.Aero': Ballistic Parachutes for VTOL Aircraft At a “shark tank”-style aerospace pitch competition during Revolution.Aero last week, Aviation Safety Resources (ASR) won both the audience and judges’ vote for their patent-pending parachute system that slows the descent of…