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
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Press Release: Astronics introduces new Emergency Locator Transmitter
Astronics Corporation, a leading provider of advanced technologies for the global aerospace, defense, and other mission-critical industries,... Continue Reading
Press Release: Li-Fi apps among tech to be demoed by Astronics at APEX
Astronics Corporation, a leading provider of advanced technologies for the global aerospace, defense and semiconductor industries, will demo... Continue Reading
Press Release: Diehl Aviation to deliver emergency power supply for 787
Diehl Aviation, First Tier Supplier for aircraft cabin interiors and aircraft systems products, has reached an agreement with Boeing to deve... Continue Reading
Air Canada looks to stop gadgets from slipping into business seats
Personal electronic devices have a way of slipping out of passengers’ hands and into the crevices of business class seats, which can create ... Continue Reading
Amidst cabin squeeze, airlines need to do better with bags
It couldn’t be clearer that there’s a squeeze in the cabin for carryon bags. Whether it’s Airbus’ Airspace, Bombardier’s Atmosphère, Zodiac’... Continue Reading
Airlines, Google speak frankly about electronics ban surprise, solutions
Discussing the controversial inflight electronics ban at the APEX TECH conference on 13 June in Los Angeles, APEX CEO Joe Leader shared the ... Continue Reading
Sudden US electronics ban endangers aircraft, passengers
The United States government appears, with no warning, to have put in place a ban on any electronic device larger than a cellphone being car... Continue Reading
KID-Systeme offers camera solution for cabin, cargo safety
Monitoring the aircraft cabin with closed circuit TV cameras may feel dystopian, but at the APEX EXPO in Singapore Airbus subsidiary KID-Sys... Continue Reading
From caterer to cabin: AirFi discusses logistics of portable wifi
A bevy of European carriers, including KLM, Small Planet, Arkefly, Estonian, and Adria Airways are already using AirFi’s portable wifi boxes... Continue Reading
#PaxEx TV: Gyrocopter joy and Galaxy Note 7 fiasco
Airline passengers are permitted to carry most portable electronic devices on board aircraft, but regulators and airlines are having to rema... Continue Reading
Inflight fires prompt debate over PED shields for premium seats
Forgive the flight attendants at Qantas if they spend a little more time telling premium class passengers to be careful handling electronic ... Continue Reading
What will be Solar Impulse’s aviation environmental legacy?
NEW YORK & MONACO — The future is clean, says Solar Impulse, and indeed its #futureisclean hashtag trends whenever the solar-powered one... Continue Reading
Teague’s pie in the sky future poses thought-provoking questions
PORTLAND, OREGON — At the APEX Expo’s educational sessions today, Devin Liddell, a principal design strategist at Teague, proposed a notiona... Continue Reading
What airlines can learn from Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains
“If only we had a bullet train.” That’s how most visitors to Japan respond after experiencing Japan’s super-efficient, scrupulously clean, s... Continue Reading
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