RegulationUS Senators Seek to Fill Skill Gap, Aviation Maintenance Jobs Four senators from across the country and the political spectrum introduced legislation Wednesday to help close the skill gap and fill aviation maintenance jobs. The bill, titled the Aviation Maintenance Workforce Development…
Embedded AvionicsAirbus Combines Tech into One Do-It-All Display Airbus is combining synthetic vision and its primary full-format flight display (PF3D) into one screen that aims to show pilots everything they need. Teams for the synthetic vision and PF3D systems have…
Business & GABombardier Challenger 350 Headed for Steep Approach Certification The Bombardier Challenger 350 will soon be able to land under strict conditions, including London City Airport's steep 5.5-degree approach angle. The company said that the business jet recently completed steep approach…
ATM ModernizationEurocontrol and iTEC Pursuing European Interoperability Eurocontrol and iTEC have agreed to develop interoperability constituents to in pursuit of SESAR's goals for a free and open sky across Europe. The founding members of the iTEC collaboration, which includes…
CommercialHoneywell to Outfit Comair's Africa-First 737 MAX Fleet Africa's first fleet of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft will be directed by Honeywell cockpit technologies. South African airline Comair has selected full suite of Honeywell navigation and weather systems for its planes,…
ConnectivityGogo Names Oakleigh Thorne CEO Gogo has appointed Oakleigh Thorne president and CEO, effective immediately. Thorne succeeds Michael Small, who mutually agreed with Gogo's board of directors to step down from the same positions recently. Thorne, a director…
CommercialAirbus Adjusts Production Schedule for A380, A400M Airbus has reworked its production plan for A380s and A400Ms. The new plan, which was presented to the European Works Council today, involves the production of six A380s and eight A400Ms per…
MilitaryLockheed Martin Reimagines Future Warfare with Henosis Henosis is the Greek word for the concept of oneness or unity. There's an interesting juxtaposition in the fact that Lockheed Martin has chosen Henosis as the name for the new joint…