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…
CommercialAvionics Industry is Ready for 2021 Autonomous Distress Tracking Editorial Note: This article provides an overview of several aircraft hardware and software technologies that have demonstrated the ability to enable minute-by-minute distress tracking in accordance with ICAO's 2021 GADSS Annex 6…
IIOTCAE Wants to Help the Pentagon Train Pilots Through Data Analysis Canadian simulator and training provider CAE is in talks with the U.S. Navy to add its new high-tech data analysis tool suite, CAE Rise, to existing and future programs, including aircrew training…
CommercialUPDATE: 737 MAX Pitches Boeing Revenues Into the Red UPDATE, 04/29/2019: Boeing's board of directors has approved a $2.055 per share quarterly dividend. The manufacturer paid $1 billion in dividends in Q4 2018 and $1.2 billion in dividends in the first…