Airbus completed the first test flight of its new A321XLR aircraft, with the flight lasting 4 hours and 35 minutes. (Photo courtesy of Airbus/Lutz Borck) Airbus completed a successful first test flight of the A321XLR in Germany, the Toulouse-based aircraft manufacturer announced Wednesday. The A321XLR is the latest extra-long range variant of the Airbus A320…
File photo of an Italian C-130J during a takeoff from an austere runway. (Photo: Aeronautica Militare) The aircraft would replace the Swedish Air Force’s old C-130Hs Sweden is looking to replace its six old C-130Hs (Tp84 according to the Swedish MoD designation) with four second-hand C-130Js from Italy, as the procurement of the latter has…
Photo: Air France Reading Time: < 1 minuteAir France will increase its weekly capacity to 5 destinations in Latin America starting in September. It will add 40% to the number of weekly operations and seats available from Paris with flights to Buenos Aires, Lima, Panama City, Santiago de Chile and São Paulo. Steven van Wijk,…
The largest cargo aircraft in the United States Air Force will undergo an avionics modernization program, including a high-resolution, large area cockpit display system from Intellisense. (Photo courtesy of Intellisense) The U.S. Air Force is upgrading its fleet of C-5M Super Galaxy Transport aircraft with new cockpit displays under a recently announced contract with Intellisense…
Photo: Boeing Reading Time: < 1 minuteVietjet, a Vietnamese international low-cost carrier, announced the launch of direct flight services between Mumbai and Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital city, and Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday. It said services on the Hanoi-Mumbai-Hanoi route will be operated three times a week, while the Mumbai to Ho Chi Minh City…
(Photo: CoreAVI) Phoenix, Arizona-based operating systems and software supplier DDC-I, Inc. and CoreAVI, the Tampa, Florida-based provider of safety critical computing, have partnered to introduce a new integrated avionics real-time operating system (RTOS) graphics platform that could accelerate the development of compute and graphics-intensive avionics applications, according to an announcement made by the two companies…
A screeenshot from the video showing the missile flying towards the UAV. In the boxes: file photos of the Spectator-M1 UAV and the Tor surface to air missile system (Photos: Ukrainian and Russian military) The video, released by the Ukrainian 45th Separate Artillery Brigade, shows the downing of the UAV after it completed its artillery…
Photo: Svein Østerhus Reading Time: < 1 minuteWizz Air will investigate the possibility of ultra-low-cost hydrogen-powered operations as part of the collaboration. It will give the airline a better understanding of how flying a zero-emission hydrogen aircraft may benefit its long-term economic plan. “At Wizz Air, we stay ambitious with our expansion plan to deliver…
A file photo of a RAAF P-8A Poseidon (Photo: Royal Australian Air Force). In the box, a PLAAF J-16 (Image credit: Chinese Military) The Chinese fighter jet cut across the Poseidon’s trajectory while releasing chaffs, some of which where ingested by the engines. The event occurred in international airspace. The Australian Ministry of Defence just…
Photo: Textron Aviation Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Mexican airline startup Aerus acquired authorization from the respective authorities to launch industrial operations. Initially, Aerus is trying to fly within the north of the nation with a fleet of Cessna planes, changing into a regional operator. «Our vision is to cover 100% of the national territory…
A rendering of the Darkstar featured in Top Gun: Maverick. (Image: Lockheed Martin) There’s an enigmatic hint in their words: “Darkstar’s capabilities could be more than mere fiction. They could be reality…” About a week after the long-awaited Top Gun: Maverick finally hit the theaters, the Skunk Works division of Lockheed Martin released some details…
Jon Merritt, VSL, Flight Deck and EFB Applications, Collins Aerospace, is the guest on this episode. On this episode of the Connected Aviation Intelligence Podcast, Jon Merritt, VSL Flight Deck and Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) Applications, Collins Aerospace, joins to explain how the use of EFBs are evolving for airline pilots. On June 1, Collins…