Singapore Pioneers Aglcms A leading edge system development at Changi Airport will provide a step change in aircraft ground routing. The potential integration with other systems presents the opportunity to improve the efficiency and safety of airport operations. In April 2013 Singapore Changi Airport completed system acceptance testing of an Advanced Guidance Lighting Control and
#AvGenY In the same way that young people’s work expectations are changing, so are the education requirements demanded by industry. Aerospace manufacturers and airlines now require young people to demonstrate a far broader range of skills than just a CPL. The question is are university programs really equipping students with the skills that airlines, manufacturers
Unmanned combat aircraft are bound for the carrier flightdeck The US Navy was due to release a draft request for proposals (RFP) to industry by the end of April for its Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) requirement. As its name suggests, the UCLASS program is intended to deliver a carrier-borne unmanned platform
Is there a future for aircraft heavy maintenance in Australia? Australia’s sterling flight safety record used to be the calling card of its aviation industry. But in recent years, it’s started to sound more like an epitaph: an expensive habit that confers too little competitive advantage in the ever-safer and more automated business of flight.
MH370, ET702 show the pendulum swing towards independent news sources on social media The news gets its news from social media, in aviation as in many other fields. But in a year with two very different major aviation incidents in its first three months – Ethiopian Airlines flight 702 and Malaysia Airlines flight 370 –
As the future of manufacturing in Australia continues to make headlines and with the first aircraft for the RAAF due to roll out of the factory within months, we survey some of the Australian companies forming links in the F-35 global supply chain A report released at the start of the year cast doubt on