CommercialElectric Taxiing Systems: Past, Present and the Possible Future On average, a single-aisle jet burns more than 65 gallons of fuel while taxiing, which translates to almost $130 per flight (considering the price of jet fuel at $2 per gallon) and…
ConnectivityHow DO-326 and ED-202 Are Becoming Mandatory for Airworthiness The recent European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) “proposal” of cybersecurity amendments to aircraft and systems electronic networks and systems certification — combined with lower profile, but very real
CommercialAir France KLM Head of Strategy Talks Predictive Maintenance at AEEC/AMC 2019 PRAGUE - The commercial airline industry is still trying to find the sweet spot between engineering expertise and reliance upon the algorithms embedded within data analytics platforms that can predict when a…
UnmannedShould Air Taxis Be Unmanned from the Jump? For urban air mobility to succeed — at scale — the industry will need to answer a question: What will it do about pilots? Ultimately, many entrants to the air taxi game want autonomy…
CommercialAPiJet to Make Waze-Like Flying a Reality for Alaska Pilots A new partnership will see real-time aircraft data analytics provider APiJET bring the type of route optimization available to drivers via the popular Waze smartphone application to Alaska Airline pilots. The new…
ATM ModernizationFortem and Unifly Plan to Solve Unmanned Airspace Fortem Technologies and Unifly are tag-teaming the problem of unmanned traffic management (UTM), with a plan to provide military and government agencies an airspace solution for tracking the expected influx of drones…
ConnectivityPODCAST: Airbus A³ Project Wayfinder Executive Arne Stoschek On the latest episode of the Global Connected Aircraft Podcast, we discuss artificial intelligence, machine learning and the exciting electric air taxi and urban air mobility projects being researched by one of…
UnmannedIris Automation Releases Detect-and-Avoid for Drones Iris Automation has released a commercially available avoid-and-detect solution for Part 107 drones, dubbed Casia. Iris is currently working with the FAA to "confirm [the] technology is at the highest levels of…