Aerospace Diary

By  Mark Martin, Director, Operator Edition Product Line, Aviation & Defence Business Unit, IFS The big data generation is upon the commercial aviation industry. According to a 2016 Oliver Wyman MRO Survey , the global fleet of commercial aircraft could generate a massive 98 million terabytes of data per year by 2026. Between the big aviation players – the OEMs, the airlines and the maintenance, repair & overhaul (MRO) operators - there is a ton of interest not just in gathering data, but sharing it for a number of different benefits, such as predictive maintenance or health monitoring systems. Data sharing Some of the leading players in the industry are starting to work on their own data platforms to get in on the benefits of sharing engineering data. GE’s cloud-based Predix platform allows third party MRO operators to download predictive analytical data via the internet, store it within their own systems and share it with customers. Airbus launched its own ...

by  Neelam Mathews  -  July 10, 2017, 3:50 AM Honeywell’s “Connected Aircraft” demonstrator reached India last week, after appearing at the Paris Air Show and heading east via Copenhagen, Moscow and Dubai. And while most of the company’s briefings in and around the Boeing 757 testbed have stressed  the advantages to be gained from real-time connectivity  by commercial operators,  and their passengers , the technology has clear military applications. Honeywell invited a large number of senior officials from the Indian Air Force ( IAF ) and Indian Navy ( IN ) on a flight from Delhi on July 4. “ We have had a good response from our aviation customers and we are in talks with Indian carriers for deployment of connected technologies,” said Neelu Khatri, president, aerospace, Honeywell India. However, she refused to comment on the military aspect of the product. But the  IAF  and  IN  are experiencing high  AOG  rates w...