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CEO Michael Small told analysts the company expects to announce further large deals from commercial airlines later this year.
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By Adrian Schofield
New Zealand’s Aviation Security Service plans to deploy a system that will improve the passenger screening process, as well as helping demonstrate the technology’s global potential.
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By Fred George
Compliance with the ADS-B mandate need not be a nightmare. The rules provide many ways to meet the requirement. Plan now, and you’ll be flying when others are awaiting deliveries of avionics boxes and slots in shop schedules.
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Aviation Week takes part in a NASA-funded flight research program to determine if upset recovery guidance provided to a pilot on the primary flight display will help that pilot to more effectively and efficiently recover the aircraft.
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By Joe Anselmo
CEO says acquisition of B/E Aerospace will make Rockwell Collins a leader in smart airplanes and says company already is benefiting from a rebound in defense.
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Leithen Francis
Gridlock in Washington has put U.S. manufacturers at a severe disadvantage.
Space

By Jens Flottau
New data-gathering-and-sharing operation will bring benefits to all who participate, Airbus asserts, from carriers to suppliers to financial services.
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By Helen Massy-Beresford
Low-cost, long-haul carriers examine how cabin connectivity can best keep passengers entertained—and add to the bottom line.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Airbus will fit new fixed and deployable combined flight data and voice recorders as standard on long-range aircraft starting in 2019 in a bid to make it easier to find aircraft wreckage in the event of an accident over the sea.
Paris Air Show

Thales is at the Paris Air Show showcasing is next-generation cockpit that integrates connectivity and allows pilots to sync information with the outside world. Aviation Week’s Thierry Dubois takes a look.

By Thierry Dubois
French company Thales, which continues to pursue big data analytics and other breaking technologies, could get a boost from election of Emmanuel Macron as president.
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By Michael Bruno
Digits over widgets and don’t overlook the backlog. In the latest Aviation Week Check 6 Podcast with Accenture, we talk about the trends and forecasts ahead of the Paris airshow this month.
Check 6 with Accenture

Developing and testing a new product in secret and then going public or the other way around. Which has a better chance of being successful?
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By Mark Nensel
According to Thales, The future of inflight entertainment will involve seatback monitors that interface heavily with passengers.
Air Transport

Cybersecurity is a growing concern for airlines as evolving inflight entertainment systems start using more sensitive passenger data.
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By Graham Warwick
UtopiaCompression says a compact single-camera system that provides passive ranging for automated collision avoidance is ready for commercialization.
Aerospace

Taking interactive moving maps to the next level, FDS Avionics has introduced the “Glass Cabin.”
EBACE

By Paul Jackson
The onboard media streaming solution for personal devices provides a broad selection of entertainment and information for passengers, including more than 800 movies and TV shows; weather, business, sports and news feeds; audio collection; destination and event information and casual games, all in five languages.
EBACE

Icelandair has chosen ViaSat to provide high-speed internet on its Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
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By Molly McMillin
Bombardier is now offering Ka-band high-speed internet on new Challenger 650 aircraft.
Business Aviation

By John Morris
​The world’s first installation of the Inairvation pre-engineered package of cabin components has been delivered by Canadian completions experts Flying Colours as part of an extensive makeover of a 2003 Bombardier Classic Global Express for a North American customer.
EBACE

By Kirby Harrison
Global broadband connectivity provider Gogo Business Aviation is announcing today that German aircraft manager and charter operator K5-Aviation is its first 2Ku business aviation customer in Europe.
EBACE

Gogo plans to offer upgraded 2K u service later this year that will take advantage of greater capacity on Intelsat’s new Epic series geostationary satellites.
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By Graham Warwick
The exercise was conducted by Aurora Flight Sciences under DARPA’s ALIAS (Aircrew Labor In-cockpit Automation System) program to develop a drop-in kit that adds high-level automation to existing aircraft.
Air Transport

By Henry Canaday
New-generation aircraft promise to provide a wealth of information helpful for MRO, but data analysis and ownership issues remain.
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