Aviation Week recently ‘test drove’ Rockwell Collins’s Fusion touchscreen flight deck on a Beechcraft King Air 250.

Three words best describe a suite of new software tools Honeywell is building for its Primus Epic integrated flight decks: seamless situational awareness.

Airbus leads a U.K. team developing a process to additively manufacture titanium structural components faster, cheaper and better than forgings.

New launch and recovery system is designed to enable a beyond-line-of-sight, multi-intelligence unmanned aircraft, with 10-12-hr. time on station at 500 nm, to be independent of runways and flight decks.

Unmanned developments: “ambulance drone” prototyped; solar-powered, optionally piloted SunStar; Airbus VTOL UAS heads to sea; TaxiBot cleared for service trials; UAS testing expands in Wales.

Cranfield University video of the Rawfeed rolling assisted wire-and-arc additive manufacturing process for producing titanium critical structural components for aerospace applications.

Aviation Week editors discuss the failures by Orbital Sciences and Virgin Galactic.

Senior Editor for Avionics and Safety John Croft visits Honeywell's Flight Deck of the Future (FD-X) Lab to see some of the advanced technologies being developed there, including eye-tracking, gesture- and voice-control modalities for next-gen cockpits.