Automation is reaching the point that it may be possible for artificial intelligence and robotics to take much of the routine workload of cockpit crews—and “remember” things no humans could in an emergency. Is this the future?
The A&D industry is facing tough challenges with their future workforce, as new generations of workers demand new work environments and collaboration tools. It’s therefore becoming increasingly important for businesses to provide the right collaboration tools and to obtain the right information to shorten their learning curve.
Teledyne Controls and GE Aviation have signed a strategic partnership that should simplify the flow of flight data off aircraft, and expand its value through GE’s cloud-based platform that can extract greater value.
The Internet of Things has increased as a going concern in commercial aviation MRO, being used to track everything from aircraft health monitoring to components.
An inevitable consequence of the new broadband satcom capabilities that satellite-communications network providers and avionics companies are teaming to provide both to the passenger cabins and to the flight decks of aircraft is that pilots’ electronic flight bags (EFBs) are beginning to offer real-time updates of operational information.
From design tools to flexible electronics, advances that proliferate sensing and communications throughout aircraft, engines and the factories where they are made will result in profound design and engineering changes.
When you're establishing a new, technology-driven company in the business aviation sector, you'd expect to be asked a lot of questions about cybersecurity. Yet according to Stratajet's Jonny Nicol, customers expect strong security as a given.
Some business aircraft operators are holding off on making a decision on Ka band equipment. But with such strong competition from Inmarsat and Viasat, operators likely will be the big winners.
Universal Avionics' InSight Integrated Flight Deck system allowed the writer to instantly form a mental image of our proximity to terrain and obstacles.
By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Bombardier WAVE (Wireless Access Virtually Everywhere) Ka-band high-speed internet is now available for Global business aircraft at all Bombardier Service Centers, the company said. Bombardier was awarded a supplemental type certificate for installation on all Bombardier Global 5000 and Global 600 aircraft and previous Global aircraft as a retrofit, the company said. A Global 5000 aircraft was the first customer aircraft to feature a retrofit installation of the Bombardier WAVE at Bombardier's Singapore Service Center.
B/E's products include seating, food and beverage preparation and storage equipment, lighting and oxygen systems, and modular galley and lavatory systems.
Aurora Flight Sciences is flying a Cessna Caravan fitted with a robotic copilot as part of a Darpa program to demonstrate automation that could reduce the crew required to fly existing aircraft.
Connectivity and a new service economy will make the flight deck of the future more like a smartphone. Systems from weather radar to the APU could benefit.
The goal is to network the combat air forces so that F-35s and F-22s can rapidly share information with fourth-generation jets. But the stovepiped communications architecture of days past complicates this picture.
AeroVironment’s Blackwing lets a submarine control unmanned underwater vehicles; Lockheed Martin’s Vector Hawk launches from a UUV; and General Atomics’ Predator flies pod that extends data-link networks—UAS show potential to bridge combat domains.
