Air TaxiWill the FAA Have Authority over Vertiports for High-Volume Air Taxi Operations? As communities discuss how to prepare for urban air mobility (UAM), concerns are emerging around how heliports — or future ‘vertiports’ — will be governed by the Federal Aviation Administration. Companies like…
MilitaryRolls-Royce Rolls Out New Electronic Engine Controllers for DoD Aircraft Rolls-Royce has launched new electronic engine controllers (EECs) for DoD aircraft, including the Rolls-Royce AE 3007 engines on U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton and U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drones by…
ConnectivityElon Musk Talks Starlink, 5G, Education and More at SATELLITE 2020 “If the schedule is long, the design is wrong,” was an adage shared by SpaceX Founder and Chief Engineer Elon Musk as he waded into a range of topics on the first…
Business & GAHow Business Jet Connectivity Gets Upgraded, Secured and Future Proofed This is the third part of a three-part Q&A session with Honeywell Aerospace focused on their support of connectivity for business jets. Brought to you by Honeywell. Check out part one and…
ATM ModernizationLeidos, Thales Working to Replace Secondary Surveillance Radars for US Air Traffic System Leidos and Thales are collaborating on the supply of up to 142 secondary surveillance radars to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under the Mode S Beacon Replacement System (MSBRS) contract. The FAA…
Air TaxiMarine Corps Partners with Air Force Agility Prime on eVTOL Aircraft for Logistics The Pentagon’s interest in electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft continues to grow, with the Marine Corps’ Warfighting Lab now partnering with the Air Force’s Agility Prime program to explore unmanned…
Business & GARegional Aviation Likely Commercial Test Bed for Hybrid and All-Electric Aircraft While aviation companies are predicting the electrification of airliners, the commercial test bed will be regional aviation, including urban air mobility, and the fielding timeline looks to be 2030 at the earliest.…
Embedded AvionicsNorthrop Grumman's E-2D, F-22 Embedded GPS System Upgrade to Run on INTEGRITY-178 RTOS Northrop Grumman’s $59 million contract to develop an upgraded embedded GPS system for E-2D Hawkeye and F-22 Raptor aircraft will run on a real time operating system (RTOS) supplied by Green Hills…