CommercialDelta Upgrading IFE, Cockpit Screens After Record-Setting Quarter Delta topped 2019’s Airline Quality Rankings for the first time in nearly two decades. It has a Net Promoter Score hovering around 50 — considered the benchmark for “excellent” on the -100…
Commercial737 MAX Troubles Plunge Boeing Revenues A 66 percent year-over-year revenue loss in the second quarter saw Boeing’s commercial airplanes segment tumble below defense as the company’s most profitable. Ongoing trouble with the grounded 737 MAX helped cut…
MilitarySeven Years Ahead of Schedule, AGCAS is Ready to Keep F-35s Safe Off the Ground The F-35's automatic ground-collision avoidance system (AGCAS), originally scheduled for delivery in 2026, is being deployed seven years ahead of time. "This is a great day for the warfighter, as the…
CommercialHow Uber Plans to Make Money Off Urban Air Mobility With the goal of pioneering a potential $500 billion new industry and an aggressive timetable, Uber wants to know how it can make money. That's where PRICE Systems' cost analytics service comes…
CommercialEXCLUSIVE: How Pipistrel's 801 Aims to Leave the Competition in its Wake Where most eVTOL vehicles are designed top out in the 140-150 mph range, Pipstrel's 801 aircraft concept will fly at better than 200 miles per hour. “If you have the opportunity to…
CommercialBell Focused on Its Place in the Future Vertical Flight Market Bell has always been an air vehicle manufacturer, first and foremost, but that might change as it postures to enter the emerging air taxi market, according to the company's chief innovator. "Could…
Business & GANew GPS Headlines Host of Oshkosh Updates From Garmin Garmin introduced a new GPS navigator offering localizer performance with vertical approach guidance (LPV) and a built-in communications radio last week at EEA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The GNC 355 is intended…
CommercialVirtual Reality Could Cut Maintenance Training Time 75 Percent Avia Solutions subsidiary FL Technics is using virtual reality to train aviation mechanics in less than a fourth of the time it take with conventional methods. "Globally the industry struggles with the…