Tag: technology
NEWS Apr 29, 2026 Japan Airlines Is Sending Humanoid Robots Onto the Tarmac at Haneda Japan Airlines has announced one of the most consequential aviation technology experiments of 2026: a multi-year trial deploying humanoid robots in live ground handling operations at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, the nation's busiest, in a partnership with GMO AI & Robotics Trading Co., Ltd. Read More →
NEWS Apr 27, 2026 Emirates Activates Starlink Satellite Internet on the Landmark A380 Superjumbo Emirates has achieved a world first in commercial aviation by completing the installation of SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet system aboard an Airbus A380 superjumbo, making it the first airline to operate the technology on the iconic double-decker aircraft. Read More →
NEWS Apr 22, 2026 Amazon Has Built a Satellite Antenna for Airplanes That Competes With Starlink's In-Flight Wi-Fi Amazon has drawn the clearest battle line yet in the race to dominate satellite connectivity aboard commercial aircraft. Read More →
NEWS Apr 22, 2026 The US Is Building an AI Brain for Its Skies, and the Man in Charge Says Controllers Have Nothing to Fear The United States federal government has placed artificial intelligence at the heart of its most ambitious aviation modernisation programme in a generation, and the official leading that effort has used his most unambiguous language yet to silence fears that AI will one day make air traffic controllers obsolete. Read More →
NEWS Apr 16, 2026 United, American Silently Remove Free T-Mobile Inflight WiFi Option Millions of T-Mobile customers who have come to rely on free in-flight Wi-Fi as a standard perk of their mobile plan are discovering a quiet but consequential change at 35,000 feet. Read More →
NEWS Apr 13, 2026 Federal Watchdog Warns America's Air Traffic Control Systems Are Wide Open to Cyberattack A damning federal audit has exposed deep cybersecurity failings at the heart of America's aviation infrastructure, revealing that the Federal Aviation Administration has left dozens of its most safety-critical systems dangerously under-protected, raising the prospect of a catastrophic cyberattack on the nation's skies. Read More →
NEWS Apr 02, 2026 Army Takes Control of First Self Flying Black Hawk to Transform Future Fleet The U.S. Army officially entered a new era of autonomous aviation yesterday as it formally accepted delivery of the first H-60Mx Black Hawk, a revolutionary "optionally-piloted" helicopter designed to fly with or without a crew. Read More →
NEWS Apr 01, 2026 New Airborne Shield Targets Evolving Drone Threats Over Critical Infrastructure Honeywell Aerospace and Odys Aviation have officially unveiled a joint counter-UAS defense solution designed to neutralize the growing global threat of hostile drone swarms. Read More →
NEWS Mar 31, 2026 Boeing and Rheinmetall Join Forces to Bring the Ghost Bat to German Skies Boeing and Rheinmetall have officially forged a strategic partnership to propel the MQ-28 Ghost Bat into the heart of European defense. Read More →
NEWS Mar 30, 2026 Airbus Bird of Prey Drone Proves Its Lethal Precision In First Flight European air defense reached a defining milestone this morning as the Airbus "Bird of Prey" uncrewed interceptor successfully completed its maiden demonstration flight. Read More →