Air Taxi

Eve Unveils Full-Size Mock-Up Of Its eVTOL Cabin

Eve Holdings revealed a full-sized mock-up of the cabin of its electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for the first time at the Farnborough Airshow. In another announcement at the airshow…

Embedded Avionics

UTAS Developing Next-Gen Aircraft Computer

UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) is the process of developing a next-generation aircraft computer that the company says will offer 20 times the computing power of today’s flight control computers. Unveiled at the…

Commercial

Boeing Exploring Autonomy, LIDAR in Future Air Cargo Aircraft

Cargo carrying airplanes could have drastically different technological configurations in the near future. During a panel on developing cargo aircraft at the Farnborough Air Show, executives from Boeing and CargoLogicAir discussed how…

Military

Norway's New AW101 Fleet Has iPhone-Like SAR Capability

The Royal Norwegian Air Force’s new fleet of Leonardo AW101 search-and-rescue (SAR) helicopters can communicate, send text messages and switch between 3G and 4G networks similar to the way the average person’s…

Commercial

Boom CEO Talks Supersonic Air Data, Antennas, Engines

Boom Supersonic is attempting to become the first company to re-launch supersonic commercial air travel since the Concorde’s final flight in October 2003. At the 2018 Farnborough International Air Show, Avionics caught…

Commercial

Boeing Service Orders Top $2 B

Boeing announced services orders, contracts and agreements worth up to $2.1 billion at the Farnborough International Air Show. "Our customers' greatest needs drive Boeing's services offerings and investments," said Stan Deal, president and CEO of…