It’s here, the first system to deliver high data-rate communications right into the cockpit, at any point on the globe. So, what's the secret behind FlytLINK? Here’s how the Iridium constellation of low-earth orbit satellites is making more possible. Read on.
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The oyster beds were almost ready for harvesting when the alert arrived. It read, ‘Take preventive measures to protect the beds from arriving pollution’.
“Without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and, with it, everything honourable and glorious.”
George Washington wrote those words to his brother in arms the Marquis de Lafayette in 1781, the middle of the American Revolutionary War.
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) expects 7.8 billion passengers to travel by 2036, a near doubling of the 4 billion air travelers in 2017. The competition to attract passengers is fierce, and the need for innovation and differentiation is stronger tha...
Before we realize it, military battles will be fought by a single unified combat machine composed of soldiers, vehicles, and sensors, all operating in complete synergy and in real time. Battlefield decision-making time will be reduced to seconds, giving a critical on-t...
For a long time, progress in avionics has been a one-way street. Throughout the 20th century, military aircraft and their crews were the primary beneficiaries of the most disruptive R&D and innovation. Innovations then adapted to the needs of commercial flights.
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The drone cleared security, took off as planned, and was flying its chartered course when suddenly it veered off to the right. The air traffic controller in Dulles Airport watched with alarm as it headed right in the direction of a new supersonic flight coming in from ...
As the face of air travel changes dramatically with the explosion of air traffic over the next two decades, you soon may be wondering why you don’t see your pilot in the cockpit—or on the plane at all.
Transit users have been enjoying highly frequent driverless train service for the last 10 years in Dubai and for more than 30 years in Vancouver. That’s still a dream for many of us though!