Aircraft developer VoltAero has made the first hybrid-electric flight of its prototype aircraft in the west of France, as it aims for certification within three years and to be manufacturing 150 aircraft a year by 2025. VoltAero plans to have started production of the final aircraft by the start of 2023 and to be producing
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If there’s one thing for certain about the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on business aviation, it is that no two days will be the same and that the industry needs to stay braced for indefinite turbulence. For those still doubting that Covid-19 is a global crisis, the World Health Organization’s official confirmation of its pandemic
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U.S. airline trade group Airlines for America (A4A) on Monday called for a massive relief package from the federal government to help its members survive a mounting liquidity crisis caused by the Covid-19 outbreak. The group has asked for a package of financial relief measures including a $25 billion grant for Part 121 passenger air
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Pegasus Series The Pegasus Series is Amphenol Pcd’s latest innovation in small, lightweight, rugged connectors. Designed for use in harsh environments, Pegasus builds on the successful Luminus Aerospace connector with the addition of EMI shielding. EMI shielding is provided by electroless copper and nickel plate, with a copper alloy spring finger gasket to ensure shell
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MIL-DTL-38999 connectors are miniature, high-density circular connectors made for some of the most demanding conditions and harshest environments imaginable. These electrical connectors have been intentionally designed to meet very strict Mil-Spec requirements set forth by the U.S. Department of Defense to establish an industry standard for performance and reliability. Despite being designed for the military,
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The novel coronavirus has killed more than 3,300 people worldwide, the vast majority in mainland China. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported the world is nearing 100,000 cases, while Johns Hopkins University says we’ve already surpassed that number. New cases of coronavirus were confirmed in new parts of the U.S. on Friday. Health experts are urging people to continue
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Electricity and water normally don’t mix. But an invention by two Northrop Grumman engineers eliminates that incompatibility and the obvious danger of exposing electrical currents to water by — believe it or not — creating a new kind of electrical connector that operates while exposed directly to water. While the manufacturers of most electrical connectors
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Did you know that many of the top manufacturers of satellite and space equipment in the world are using Positronic connectors? Failure is not an option for space applications! Not just anyone or anything can make it into space these days. Space travel is expensive, exclusive, and highly selective, so when the space industry requests
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Airbus has been fined €3.6bn as it reached final deferred prosecution agreements (DPA) with French, US and UK authorities over bribery activity in a number of countries including Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Taiwan. The agreement with the French Parquet National Financier (PNF), the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), and the US Department of
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Air Electro Inc. is a veteran-founded family-owned company that has been proving interconnect solutions for over 65 years. The company was founded in 1952 by Marine Veteran William Strull, and then passed down to his son Steve in the 90’s. The company will eventually transition to his sons, Spencer, Ben and Sam, and remain part
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Everybody knows someone who has accidentally spilled liquid on their smartphone or dropped the device in water. Studies suggest that about 20% of phones may suffer this fate, with some models now built to resist immersion in shallow water for short periods of time. Demand is growing for new types of portable and wearable electronics
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Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) representatives joined U.S. Coast Guard leaders and crew members for a ceremony on Jan. 31 at the Coast Guard Aviation Logistics Center in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, celebrating the completion of operational testing of the first Coast Guard HC-130J outfitted with the Block 8.1 upgrade. This upgrade was installed on a
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A network of drone R&D sites in the USA being led from Alaska is developing the technologies to enable the next generation of drone operations. If you want to prove your drone can inspect a bridge in the middle of nowhere, fly hundreds of pounds of supplies into a remote airport, search for wildlife, monitor
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The growth in world population is placing increased demands on agricultural production. This is one of the major challenges of modern agriculture, now in the midst of major transformation. Now that “intelligent” and connected equipment is becoming available on the market, answers to these needs are now within reach, while at the same time addressing
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Micro-D connectors are about half the size of D-sub connectors. Both are shaped like the letter D. The early D-shaped connectors were first used in computers because of their compact design. Image courtesy of Glenair Offering reliable and secure electrical connections, they feature at least two rows of parallel pins and offer high density in
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We are proud and excited to announce that Air Electro has won the business of being the connector supplier to Honeywell for their ADM. Air Electro will be supplying up to 7500 connectors a year for this project, which follows a successful partnership on Honeywell’s ADS-B program. What is ADM? Automatic Descent Mode (ADM) is
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Hermetic connectors are designed to prevent ingress of air, gases and other liquids into the vacuum-sealed connector in extremely harsh environments. In testing, these connectors should show no detectable gas or fluid leakage. They should be able to withstand high pressures of 10,000 psi or more, ensuring a stable pressure differential on both sides of
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Technology is advancing more and more every day. And as a society, we expect it to keep advancing. The demand for faster speeds, better connections and “smarter” devices is only increasing. At the heart of these new technologies is 5G. While many of us are familiar with this term, we might not understand what it
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Exciting announcement! Our partners at TE Connectivity have been awarded a top honor for the third straight time. TE Connectivity Ltd. has been named to Fortune magazine’s list of the World’s Most Admired Companies for the third year in a row. (PRNewsfoto/TE Connectivity) The annual survey, conducted by Fortune and Korn Ferry, is given to
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In this new decade, many major automotive manufacturers and technology companies are testing autonomous/self-driving vehicles. There are in fact currently 65 companies conducting these tests. Some of these companies Tesla (obviously), General Motors, Google, Apple, and Ford. Only one of those companies currently has attained a permit for fully driverless testing on California public roads
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We are very excited for our industry partners: Radiall. This week they released a statement that they completed the acquisition of Timbercon, Inc. Radiall America, Inc. announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Timbercon, Inc., a fiber optic interconnect specialist based in Tualatin, Oregon. “We are excited to welcome Timbercon to the Radiall
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Air travelers and crew increasingly rely on in-flight connectivity. An expanding array of advanced products and design strategies gives airlines options for how to deliver both in-flight entertainment and critical communications. Over the five-year period spanning 2018 to 2023, in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems are projected to grow from an estimated value of $5 billion to
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16 January 2003, 15:39:00 UTC, T minus Zero: Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Columbia (OV-102) was America’s first space shuttle. This would be her final flight. 81.7 seconds after launch, Columbia was at approximately 66,000 feet (20,100 meters) altitude and 12.5 miles (20.1 kilometers) downrange, accelerating
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Any time a connector needs to be protected from the environment where it operates, you should consider choosing one of two types of sealed connectors. The two types of sealing available include hermetic sealing, where the contacts are sealed against air and gases; and environmental seals, such as those with an IP or ingress protection
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The ISO has announced a set of international standards covering quality, safety, security and etiquette for the operation of commercial drones. The standards have been produced by the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) after a year-long consultation with drone operators, academics and businesses. The ISO said the standards, which are the first in a series
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Korean carmaker Hyundai has revealed an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft it is developing for use by an Uber Air Taxi Service. Uber aims to start flight tests of Uber Air aircraft in Dallas, Los Angeles and Dubai, and just announced Melbourne, by 2020 and is planning to commence commercial service
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As investigators scramble to work out what caused a Boeing 737-800 to crash early Wednesday, the embattled plane maker is grappling with another catastrophe as it continues to reel from its 737 Max crisis. The Ukraine-bound 737-800 crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s main international airport, killing all 176 onboard the plane. Early reports from
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Welcome to 2020! Other than being a numerically auspicious date that stands at the gateway of a fresh new decade, the year 2020 will probably be like any other year: Full of confusing and depressing events that will make you wish Earth had some sort of eject button. But, statistically speaking, there must be some
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The Airbus rumor mill seems to be back in operation as the airframer entices further speculation about an A220 stretch. Airbus’ Chief Commercial Officer has suggested that an Airbus A220-500 is inevitable. But that’s amid Airbus’ attempts to manage expectations and rebuke any suggestion that the aircraft is on its way to production. Not “If”,
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NASA’s experimental X-59 jet, which could make supersonic commercial travel a reality, has been cleared for final assembly. The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft, designed by Lockheed Martin, could take its first flight as soon as 2021. This is NASA’s first large-scale, piloted x-plane (or experimental aircraft) in more than three decades, and its goal is to reduce the
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Big news to close out 2019 and the decade with… Power management company plc (NYSE:ETN) announced it has completed the acquisition of the business of TransDigm Group Incorporated for $920 million. Headquartered in Versailles, France, Souriau-Sunbank is a global leader in highly engineered electrical interconnect solutions for harsh environments for customers in the aerospace, defense,
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It can be tough to keep up with everything humanity is sending skyward, so we created a list of 20 missions so you can mark your calendars for all the exciting moments in space travel, planetary research, and even colonization in the coming decade. SpaceX To Launch Starlink Fleet (2020) This will undoubtedly
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It’s official! For the first time since 1947, when the U.S. Air Force was established, a new armed service of the U.S. military was formed last week. On December 20, 2019, recently impeached President Donald Trump signed the U.S. Space Force into existence. The U.S. Space Force is organized as a military service branch within
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Radiall is widely recognized as a leading and innovative manufacturer of multipin and modular connectors designed for the Aerospace and Defense markets. Air Electro offers full value-added capabilities on Radiall’s ARINC 404 and ARINC 600 product, in addition to stocking to modular EPX connectors. We maintain a vast inventory on all Radiall ARINC and EPX
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22 December 1964: Lockheed test pilot Robert J. “Bob” Gilliland made a solo first flight of the first SR-71A, 61-7950, at Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, California. The “Blackbird” flew higher than 45,000 feet (13,716 meters) and more than 1,000 miles per hour (1,609 kilometers per hour) before landing at Edwards Air Force Base, 22
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19 December 1972: At 2:25 p.m. EST—12 days, 13 hours, 51 minutes, 59 seconds after departing the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida—the Apollo 17 command module America (CM-112) returned to Earth, splashing down in the South Pacific Ocean, approximately 350 miles (563 kilometers) southeast of Samoa. The three 83 foot, 6 inch diameter (25.451 meters) ring sail main parachutes had deployed
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As a franchised stocking distributor for Glenair, Air Electro offers a comprehensive selection of Mil-Spec and commercial backshells; from wire bundle strain reliefs, backshells, dummy stowage receptacles and protective covers, to advanced electromagnetic shielding and termination systems, extender backshells, pipe thread adapters, shorting caps, and cable sealing backshells. Glenair produces literally hundreds of thousands of
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Radiall is widely recognized as a leading and innovative manufacturer of multipin and modular connectors designed for the Aerospace and Defense markets. Multi-port connectors consist of multiple coaxial contacts of the same interface integrated into a single connector module. Coaxial contacts are carefully designed to provide low insertion force, blind mating and high reliability. Multiport
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Did you know that almost every product you’ve touched today was likely the result of an automated manufacturing process? A milk carton, a tube of toothpaste, your car, your computer: all of these items are now typically produced through a largely automated system. We’re currently in the midst of a digital transformation, and many manufacturers
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Resistance base, Batuu, Outer Rim (aka Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Hollywood Studios, Orlando, Florida) — Whatever your sympathies to the rebellion or your level of Star Wars acumen, you’re rebel scum now. That’s your fate once you enter the most ambitious interactive attraction in Disney theme park history — Rise of the Resistance — which
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Beginning in 2012 Air Electro teamed up with Glenair to be their first distributor to sell Glenair’s cutting edge optoelectronic product. Optoelectronics (also referred to as photonics) are various forms of optical transceivers/receiver assemblies, copper-to-fiber media converters, “active” connectors and cables and other devices used to convert digital electrical signals in electronic equipment into optical
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On this Day in History, Gene Cernan became the last human to stand on the lunar surface of the moon. Launched on December 7. 1972; the Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA’s Apollo program. This was a “J-Type” mission that included three days on the lunar surface, extended scientific capability, and the use
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The NDAA also establishes an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy as the senior civilian in the Office of the Secretary of Defense WASHINGTON — The leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees on Dec. 9 unveiled the conference agreement they have reached for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
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A warplane whose existence was kept secret for nearly a decade now looms outside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum in Simi Valley for all to see. On Saturday morning, the library’s new F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter exhibit kicked off with a short ceremony while the annual Reagan National Defense Forum carried on indoors. A ribbon-cutting preceded the midday
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Ground blocks and terminal and junction modules are used for grounding and wiring integration devices for commercial and military aircraft. Typical applications are lighting in the aircraft, IFE and galley. The ground blocks bodies are made from an aluminum alloy and terminal modules from polyphenylene sulfide. They meet the electrical, mechanical and environmental performance criteria
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Virgin Atlantic founder and prolific businessman Richard Branson has pulled out of a proposed deal to sell part of his shares to Air France-KLM. Agreed two years ago, the deal was for a 31% stake in Virgin Atlantic, which would have left Delta Air Lines as the majority shareholder. Now, Branson will retain his 51%
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Radiall is widely recognized as a leading and innovative manufacturer of multipin and modular connectors designed for the Aerospace and Defense markets. Air Electro offers full value-added capabilities on Radiall’s ARINC 404 and ARINC 600 product, in addition to stocking to modular EPX connectors. We maintain a vast inventory on all Radiall ARINC and EPX
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Quickmate Connectors Quickmate, a range of quick mating connectors were developed for the ease of wiring in cable—to—cable and PCB—to—cable applications. These connectors have unique slide lock system that features one finger mating—in a snap (Radiall Touch). Quickmate connectors offer designed cost-effective solutions for any industry. Applicable industries: Aerospace, Defense, Industrial, Medical, Space, Telecom, Test
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It’s officially Black Friday! We went searching on the internet for some great deals for pilots, and this is a small selection of the deals we found and think you might find interesting. Happy shopping! Deals on Rod Machado’s Courses Most of you will probably have heard of Rod Machado, an experienced flight instructor
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