Having won Hawaiian deal, Bluebox details iPad Pro IFE rollout
While it did not invent the Apple iPad, Bluebox Avionics – which launched in 2006 as a joint venture between AviIT and DMD Phantom ... Continue Reading
Author: Tomás Romero
Talking to pilots shapes Arconics’ EFB software upgrade path
Dublin, Ireland-based Arconics has been lightening the load, both literally and figuratively, for pilots, flight crews and airlines around t... Continue Reading
Spielberg transforms The BFG into BFD for film fans
Not including 2011’s fun, hugely-underrated computer animated The Adventures of Tintin, Steven Spielberg hasn’t directed a prope... Continue Reading
Mars One semi-finalist opens up about male-dominated industry
In part one of our Lean Into Aviation profile of pioneering Rockwell Collins human factors & systems engineer Laura Smith-Velazquez, the... Continue Reading
Girl-powered Ghostbusters amply gets the job done
The virulently misogynistic political climate being what it is in the US at the moment, it’s no wonder that an all-woman reboot of a b... Continue Reading
Humanoid cockroaches on Mars bring bug battle fun
When it comes to bigscreen adaptations of hugely popular manga comics, they don’t come much bigger or weirder than the bugs from Mars ... Continue Reading
Mars One semi-finalist Laura Smith-Velazquez reaches for the stars
Laura Smith-Velazquez is a human factors & systems engineer at Rockwell Collins’ Advanced Technology Center. She is also a pilot w... Continue Reading
Shark vs. surfer sleeper The Shallows dives deep
Ever since that poor, doomed skinny dipper was eaten alive in the opening scene of the original Jaws, no great (or more appropriately, not s... Continue Reading
The Huntsman: Winter’s War is so bad it’s good
Chris Hemsworth might not be the greatest actor on the planet, but, love him or hate him, the dude is charismatic as all get out. And Hemswo... Continue Reading
ORBIS launches social media campaign for World Sight Day
Last month ORBIS International’s third generation Flying Eye Hospital (FEH) touched down in Shenyang, China for their first official t... Continue Reading
New partnership looks to turn flight delay lemons into lemonade
Anyone who’s ever flown regularly for business (or pleasure for that matter), undoubtedly has more than a few horror stories about ext... Continue Reading
Edgy indie The Lobster is bound for classic status
Yorgos Lanthimos has only made a handful of films, 2009’s Oscar-nominated Dogtooth being one of them, but already his name is being ba... Continue Reading
Roommates Wanted is frothy but flawed French fun
Great French comedies are like chocolate soufflés, if baked to perfection they have a light, airy quality that warms the soul like so much m... Continue Reading
Sully is tense, gripping and deeply moving from nose to tail
Most of the movies I review here hold up pretty nicely on a tiny seatback IFE screen or an even smaller PED – I watched The Little Pri... Continue Reading
Into the Forest is a fiery, feminist manifesto
When it comes to stark, post-apocalyptic dramas, female characters tend to have a pretty rough go of it, with most of them being raped, kill... Continue Reading
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