Latest Articles by Woodrow Bellamy III

Woodrow Bellamy III is the editor-in-chief of Avionics. Over the past five years, he has been covering a wide range of topics, including aircraft internet connectivity, next-generation airspace modernization and federally mandated avionics equipage for Avionics. In June 2017, he was recognized with The Bill Gunston Technology Writer of the Year Award.

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Commercial

UPS to Upgrade Boeing 757, 767 Cockpits

UPS is bringing Boeing 787-style cockpit avionics displays to its fleet of legacy 757s and 767s under a new avionics display upgrade program. Large-screen displays will replace 26 current line replaceable units,…

Embedded Avionics

4 Things We Learned at AEEC/AMC

Large unmanned aircraft avionics need more standardization, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is coming to avionics, and operators are equipping their aircraft with mission specific technologies. These were just some of the…

Business & GA

Best of Both Apps: ForeFlight and Jeppesen Align

Under a new strategic alliance, pilots across all segments of aviation will eventually have access to Jeppesen charts and data on ForeFlight Mobile and software-based navigation capabilities within Jeppsen’s FliteDeck Pro. The world’s…

Business & GA

Embraer CEO Sees Big Potential for Uber Partnership

Embraer CEO Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva believes there could be a big potential market for sales of electric aircraft in the future, the Brazilian airframe manufacturing executive told analysts during…

Embedded Avionics

Airbus, Boeing Support New Standards for GADSS

During the opening joint session of the 2017 Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) and Avionics Maintenance Committee (AMC) general session, representatives from the world’s two biggest commercial airplane manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing,…

Business & GA

What to Expect at the 2017 AEEC/AMC Conference

Three new ARINC avionics standards and eight supplements to existing standards have reached an industry consensus for the 2017 annual Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) and Avionics Maintenance Committee (AMC) general session.…

Embedded Avionics

3 Things We Learned at Aviation Electronics Europe 2017

With a total of 50 exhibitors, seven panel discussions, four workshops and two certified training courses on DO-178C and DO-254, Europe’s biggest avionics industry event, Aviation Electronics Europe 2017, concluded Wednesday. While it…

ATM Modernization

New Flight Test Shows Potential of Space-Based ADS-B

  The FAA and Aireon completed a flight test using space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) technology in the New York and Washington flight information regions. The test collected ADS-B data to be used…