CommercialUS Now Has 60,000 Part 107 Drone Pilots A little more than a year after the FAA finalized its small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) Part 107 rules, 60,000 people have obtained remote pilot certificates. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta gave an…
CommercialWTO Issues Ruling on Boeing 777X Tax Subsidies The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) appellate body issued a ruling Monday, reversing a November 2016 ruling by a lower WTO panel that said Washington state has provided illegal subsidies through a tax…
Curated ContentWatch: Verizon Drone Surveillance Footage Shows Hurricane Harvey Aftermath As emergency response efforts in Texas continue after Hurricane Harvey, Verizon is using drones to survey sites and assess damage. The wireless service provider's network teams are staffing a 24x7 wireless command center and…
CommercialAircraft Orders, Real-time Data Drive Growth Opportunity in Avionics Market According to a new report published by Frost & Sullivan regarding the worldwide commercial avionics market forecasted to 2030, that total market was worth $12.74 billion in 2016 and is expected to…
Embedded AvionicsSouthwest, DJI, Boeing Among Top 10 Stories of August 2017 Here are the top 10 Avionics articles from our August coverage of the latest industry news: Southwest’s 1st 737 Max 8 Due This Month; Classics Gone by October Southwest Airlines was set…
ConnectivityIn-Flight Wi-Fi Still Under Evaluation for Some Airlines Decisions for airlines making investments in providing in-flight Wi-Fi for passengers are strongly driven by the segment of the industry they operate within, as Avionics learned at the 2017 Boyd International Aviation…
CommercialUTC Moves Closer to Rockwell Collins Acquisition, Report Says According to a report published by The Wall Street Journal Tuesday, United Technologies Corp. (UTC) is moving closer to a potential acquisition of Rockwell Collins. The report notes that UTC is “nearing a…
ConnectivityStreamlining With Connectivity Looking at this issue’s cover, you may be wondering what Netflix, Google, Facebook and Visa are doing on there. Amid all the coverage of the technical aspects of airplane computing and data…