Inmarsat’s Jet ConneX Ka-band satcom service is soaring, with this week’s announcements by Bombardier, Dassault and Embraer about equipping their aircraft with the high-speed satcom systems.

DC Aviation reported earlier this month that it successfully installed a Gogo Business Aviation Aviator 300 SwiftBroadband system and a Gogo UCS 5000 file server in a Bombardier Challenger 604, marking the first time worldwide that the two connectivity components were integrated into a currently existing cabin of the type, with an EASA STC.

​JetWave Ka-band high speed in-flight connectivity emerges from EBACE with two significant, new applications to its credit.

Leonardo is at EBACE to trumpet its claim to a leading position in the global VIP helicopter market with a 50% share in the multiengine segment.

See news briefs from the 2017 European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition.

Claude Vuichard has an idea that he is convinced will save lives and dramatically improve safety for helicopter users: the problem is, he has to convince the world to reject 70 years of received wisdom.

The world’s most “printed engine,” GE’s new Advanced Turboprop in which additive manufacturing replaces 855 normally made parts with just 12 “printed” components, is on track to run for the first time this year. It will power Cessna’s new Denali aircraft.

Promoting itself as “a key gateway to London,” TAG Farnborough Airport (Booth W36) has the numbers to prove it: a 3.2% increase in air traffic movements (ATMs) in the first four months of this year and a 5.5% rise in large aircraft movements (ACJs, BBJs and their like) during 2016.