CommercialPODCAST: Alaska Airlines' Director of Fleet Technology, Bret Peyton Episode 10 of #GCAPodcast is here -- and this time, we discuss the current and future use of high speed in-flight connectivity as well as NASA’s Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests (TASAR) and…
RegulationNew Drone Guidelines Set the Stage for Remote ID The FAA updated the Federal Register with new guidelines for recreational drone use today, bringing the standards more in line with commercial flight and priming the UAS climate for coming remote ID…
CommercialBoeing Finishes MCAS Fix for 737 MAX Boeing's 737 MAX is back in the air — at least for flight testing. The company has completed its software update on the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system (MCAS) system and test flown…
CommercialWhat Uber Is Looking For in a Cost-Effective Urban Transport Vehicle Despite Uber's notoriously ambitious schedule, Director of Aviation Engineering Mark Moore says the company does not need any miracles to get its urban air mobility (UAM) business off the ground — just…
CommercialLufthansa Technik Creates Robot to Test Airbus, Boeing Cockpit Control Panels Editorial Note: This is an excerpt from our article on emerging automated test equipment technologies featured in the May 2019 edition of Avionics International. Check out the full version here. Lufthansa Technik…
CommercialBoom is Using 3DExperience to Digitally Design a Supersonic Airliner LAS VEGAS, NV Boom Supersonic’s Overture commercial airliner will be designed using Dassault Systèmes’ 3DExperience digital engineering design tools, under a partnership announced by the two companies at the 2019 3DExperience Forum.…
ConnectivityInside the Phased-Array Antenna Boeing is Putting on the MQ-25 Boeing is introducing a new flat phased-array satcom antenna for military aircraft, starting with the MQ-25 Stingray unmanned tanker that the company is developing for the U.S. Navy. The new electronically steered…
CommercialFAA Admin Nominee Dickson Pledges to Investigate MAX, Prioritize Safety Restoring trust in the FAA will be a big job for the agency's next administrator, and Congress wants nominee Stephen Dickson to know it. Appearing before the Senate's Commerce Committee, which oversees…