Air TaxiOPINION: Advanced Air Mobility in Commercial Aviation May be in Start-Up Mode Now, But The Future Awaits The support challenges – from design through to production, operation and maintenance – that await organizations looking to enter or further entrench themselves in a high-growth industry. In 2021, Advanced Air Mobility…
CommercialNew RNAV RNP Procedure Enables Safer Approaches and Landings at Eagle County Airport In August 2021, I participated in an inspection flight of a new approach procedure at one of the most challenging airports to land at in the U.S., Colorado's Eagle County (KEGE) with…
Business & GAVista Global Sees Record Increase in Demand for US Business Jet Flights in 3Q Vista Global saw record-breaking demand for business jet flights in U.S. airspace during the third quarter of 2022—up 185% from the same period last year. The parent company of Malta-based VistaJet,…
ConnectivityLufthansa Develops New iPad Application to Digitize Pre-Flight Inspection Process Lufthansa has developed a new iPad application that will “digitize” its pre-flight aircraft inspection process using Apple’s SwiftUI developer framework and Ditto’s peer-to-peer real time database. Ditto is a California-based startup that…
ConnectivityIn-Flight Connectivity Review: Streaming NFL RedZone on a G550 with Satcom Direct’s New Antenna Ahead of the 2022 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE), Satcom Direct (SD) invited Avionics International and several other aviation publications on a media demonstration flight of a Gulfstream G550 equipped with their…
MilitaryNorthrop Grumman to Take the Wraps Off B-21 on Dec. 2 Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force plan to unveil the company’s B-21 Raider stealth bomber in Palmdale, Calif., on Dec. 2 at an invitation-only event, the company said on Oct. 20. “On…
MilitaryFully Autonomous Black Hawk Featured in US Army’s Gateway Experiment Held from Sept. 19 until Oct. 18, the U.S. Army Futures Command’s Project Convergence 2022 Technology Gateway experiment at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., featured technologies from 35 companies in the areas of…
ConnectivityInmarsat Launches New Bundled OneFi Services for In-Flight Connectivity Inmarsat is launching a series of new bundled services for its airline customers on its OneFi passenger experience platform. The company announced the new bundles for its connected platform on Thursday, with aims…