Will Dash 8 hybrid-electric X-plane hit the spot for green aviation?
A huge amount of technological change is occurring in aerospace today. New engine programs are underway to support everything from the retur... Continue Reading
Safety
Flying Alaska out of Paine Field proves pain-free
Alaska Airlines recently moved into Paine Field, in Everett, Washington. The tiny new passenger terminal, barely two months old, is located ... Continue Reading
Opinion: Boeing must give maximum assurance on 737 MAX airworthiness
With the global grounding of the 737 MAX fleet Boeing faces what is possibly the greatest crisis of confidence in the company’s history. The... Continue Reading
Dulles team reminds women that airport management is a career option
Modern girls and young women are increasingly aware that pilot or engineering careers are as much a possibility for them as their male peers... Continue Reading
Astronics eyes disruptive use cases for Li-Fi in aviation and PaxEx
When industry stakeholders started considering how Li-Fi might be deployed in aircraft cabins, certain naysayers predicted that the cons wou... Continue Reading
Intelsat 29e outage will test a major value proposition for Ku IFC
One of the long-understood benefits of offering Ku-band connectivity is that there exists a patchwork quilt of Ku satellites around the worl... Continue Reading
Southwest now flying its Aloha vibes to Maui
Just a few weeks after launching its first-ever Hawaii flights from Oakland to Honolulu, Southwest Airlines followed up that milestone with ... Continue Reading
ATR highlights applications of hearing loops, braille to remove barriers
Nearly five hundred million people worldwide – more than six percent of the global population – have hearing loss to a level tha... Continue Reading
IATA answers questions about accessibility as passengers urge action
Greater attention to the difficulties that disabled passengers face when they fly raises questions about whether the airline industry is lis... Continue Reading
In Conversation Transcribed: AIX 2019
Runway Girl Network is pleased to now provide transcripts of the In Conversation podcast. Please, if you use and appreciate this transcript,... Continue Reading
MAX pain could see some suppliers gain, but nobody is celebrating
The preliminary report published last week by Ethiopian investigators that Flight 302 crew followed the MCAS fault recovery procedures table... Continue Reading
Safran cracks the code to offer Bluetooth across cabin classes
The once ubiquitous 3.5mm headphone jack is quickly becoming a rarity in the consumer smartphone industry. Apple nixed the standard from the... Continue Reading
In Conversation: AIX 2019
Runway Girl Network editor Mary Kirby and journalist Marisa Garcia join deputy editor John Walton at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg ... Continue Reading
Honeywell readies to support Inmarsat GX service for airlines
Honeywell Aerospace, a long-time partner to Inmarsat, is feeling “really good” about last week’s announcement that a priva... Continue Reading
Airbus expands Hamburg A350 Customer Definition Centre
Inside a heritage pre-WWI hangar at Airbus’ German factory headquarters now sits the extended and rebranded Airspace Customer Definition Cen... Continue Reading
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