CommercialHoneywell to Outfit Comair's Africa-First 737 MAX Fleet Africa's first fleet of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft will be directed by Honeywell cockpit technologies. South African airline Comair has selected full suite of Honeywell navigation and weather systems for its planes,…
ConnectivityGogo Names Oakleigh Thorne CEO Gogo has appointed Oakleigh Thorne president and CEO, effective immediately. Thorne succeeds Michael Small, who mutually agreed with Gogo's board of directors to step down from the same positions recently. Thorne, a director…
CommercialAirbus Adjusts Production Schedule for A380, A400M Airbus has reworked its production plan for A380s and A400Ms. The new plan, which was presented to the European Works Council today, involves the production of six A380s and eight A400Ms per…
MilitaryLockheed Martin Reimagines Future Warfare with Henosis Henosis is the Greek word for the concept of oneness or unity. There's an interesting juxtaposition in the fact that Lockheed Martin has chosen Henosis as the name for the new joint…
ATM ModernizationInmarsat to Help ESA Open up the Skies with Iris Radio frequencies throughout the skies are nearing full capacity and bottlenecking the number of planes that can be in the sky at any given time, according to Inmarsat. The solution, it says,…
RegulationNear-Instant Nationwide Drone Use Authorization on the Way The FAA has heard the complaints about slow bureaucracy. It knows an agency needs to be nimble to keep up with changing technology and the shifting priorities of modern-day companies and users.…
ConnectivityGarmin Grows Connext Connectivity Ecosystem with App Garmin is working to bulk up its connectivity ecosystem with the FltPln.com website and FltPlan Go phone app aiming to be a full-service solution for pilots. Garmin said that the new app…
CommercialAutonomous in Australia: Boeing Partners with Queensland to Develop Drones Boeing has a new partnership with the Queensland government to develop autonomous vehicle systems in Australia. The company said the Australia-based autonomous systems development program would be its largest outside of the…