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

Air Nostrium, StandardAero Sign APU Agreement 

Spanish regional carrier Air Nostrium has signed an agreement with Tempe, Ariz. based StandardAero to provide maintenance for its fleet of aircraft equipped with Honeywell GTCP36-150RJ auxiliary power units (APUs).  Under the…

Commercial

BAE Systems Satcom for UAS Test Proves Successful

British engineers have demonstrated the use of Ka-band satellite communications (Satcom) to transfer large amounts of data between unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), BAE Systems said Tuesday.      [Taranis, a prototype unmanned…

Business & GA

Honeywell Brings Synthetic Vision to Epic 2.0 

On the 10-year anniversary of the original Primus Epic platform, Honeywell unveiled an upgraded "Epic 2.0" version with access to the aerospace and defense manufacturer's SmartView synthetic vision system, among other new…

Commercial

EasyJet Systems to Detect Volcanic Ash

U.K.-based discount carrier EasyJet is looking to equip some of its aircraft with a volcanic ash detection system by the end of next year, the carrier said Wednesday.      [During testing,…

Embedded Avionics

Taiwan F-16s to Receive Gigabit Ethernet Switch

The Taiwan Air Force is the first of what could be several nations to receive an upgrade from Lockheed Martin that will add Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) technology to its fleet of F-16…

ATM Modernization

American Receives First ROPS-equipped A319

American Airlines received its first Airbus A319 equipped with the Runway Overrun Prevention System (ROPS), Airbus said Tuesday.    ROPS, an onboard cockpit technology designed to increase situational awareness during landing, recently…

ATM Modernization

Airbus Approves Communications Retrofit for A380s

Airbus has formed a new joint agreement with Panasonic Avionics and Lufthansa Technik to retrofit all in-service A380s with broadband connectivity and mobile phone services.    Under the agreement, the first of…