Oil-and-gas-support helicopter industry body HeliOffshore has begun research into how helicopter pilots monitor flight instruments by using eye-tracking research.
The Ping ADS-B transponder developed by uAvionix weighs just 6 grams (0.2 oz.). The basic system receives ADS-B position reports from commercial aircraft within a 100-mi. radius using the 1090 MHz data link and reports threats within a programmable spherical volume.
Before the end of this year, Honeywell Aerospace plans to release a new software version for its IntuVue RDR-4000 weather radar that will allow an unnamed airline customer to begin downlinking snapshots of weather activity and threats directly from onboard radar to the ground through broadband links.
Despite key congressional actions over the past 20 years aimed at helping the FAA operate more like a business, the agency’s operational productivity is down while employee costs have nearly doubled, according to an audit by the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
Startup XTI Aircraft has launched a formal stock offering after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) qualified its crowdfunding campaign to assess interest in backing development of its TriFan 600 vertical-take-off-and-landing business aircraft.
Airbus Group plans a pilot project with ridesharing network Uber that will enable users to connect air and ground transportation, airframer CEO Tom Enders said.
JFI Jets and ACP Jets, which merged last year, unveiled Alerion Aviation, the new brand for the combined company, at the National Business Aviation Association’s Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference in Tampa, Florida.
ATR achieved a new record turnover in 2015, increasing to 2 billion dollars (2014: 1.8 billion). During the year, the aircraft manufacturer also set a new record in terms of aircraft deliveries, with a total of 88 aircraft (2014: 83), an increase of 72% over the 51 deliveries made in 2010.
Despite the restrictions that come with a Section 333 FAA exemption, quite a few entities seem to think the chance to operate a business drone is worth the effort and expense.
Hexcel plans to build a $20 million, 117,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing plant in Casablanca, Morocco, as part of an effort to create a diversified and global supply chain to support aerospace customers, it said.
A Russo-Chinese cooperative program for an unusually large helicopter should move into full-scale development, with an agreement due to be signed this year.
The assets of SAM Aircraft have been acquired by the sons of aircraft designer Chris Heintz, the owners and operators of Zenith Aircraft Co. and Zenair Ltd.
Fifty-four percent of U.S. FBOs say their fuel sales increased in 2015 compared to 2014, according to the 2016 Annual FBO Fuel Sales Survey results released by Aviation Business Strategies Group at the 2016 NBAA Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference in Tampa, Fla.
Fifty-four percent of U.S. FBOs say their fuel sales increased in 2015 compared to 2014, according to the 2016 Annual FBO Fuel Sales Survey results released by Aviation Business Strategies Group at the 2016 NBAA Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference in Tampa, Florida.
Russian Helicopters sees Avic as eager to begin a second Russo-Chinese cooperative helicopter production program, under which the small Mil Mi-34 would be built in China for the local market.
Pilots are becoming complacent both in hand-flying and monitoring skills; Help is coming in the form of new rules, but guidance from the FAA is lagging.
