Laptops are designed for transportation and live a mobile life. When trying to upgrade or enhance a feature much like many people do with PCs, it is often more difficult with laptops as parts come small to be able to fit into place into the laptop itself. Although the swapping of parts has been mastered by many ending results don’t always go as planned and up slowing down the entire laptop unit. To avoid the removal of access parts and tampering with the original stock products, NVIDIA has engineered a new outer graphic card that comes equipped with their popular TITAN X and Quadro products. This will be the first time that NVIDIA will be entering the graphic card market with their eGPU product.

A new joint venture between major airlines Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic have been formed in lue of expanding of expanding their companies. Virgin Airlines has agreed to give up 31% of their business Air France-KLM as a newest partner in their company. The estimated cost of the 31% will cost Air France-KLM £220m (286221678.69) US Dollars. Along with the new JV forming it will also include Italian airline Alitalia. Alitalia is able to contribute to the venture an approximate 300 flights that cross the Atlantic Ocean. This will allow for expansion with already owned aircrafts by these different airlines involved. The Group forming with Atlantic will decrease its share to an approximate 20% .

During the France airshow held in Marignane in June, Airbus has launched their newest model for their newest aircraft. They are in the process of creating a more environment friendly aircraft which is a part of the “Clean Shy 2 European research programme.” The test model is said to be up and running by 2019 followed by its first departure the following year. Configured to reach speeds up to 400 km/h and equipped with new innovative technology.

Airbus has decided to include the 131-9A auxiliary power unit for its fleet of A320 aircraft. What used to be just a selectable option for airlines has now become standard equipment. It is said to be the gold standard for the A320 family. It is an extremely reliable unit with proven effectiveness. It also offers a huge fuel savings which is a big incentive in the industry.

In 2016, Bombardier strengthened its overall service and support by hiring close to 200 technicians and project managers within the last four months and supported over 9,000 maintenance events. At ASAP Semi, we deal with bombardier every day because they give us great prices since we order often from them. Bombardier Business Aircraft’s five U.S.-based Service Centres was awarded the 2016 Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) Diamond Award of Excellence. The AMT is the industry’s highest recognition award for aircraft maintenance.

Westwind has Bell transport helicopters that operate on and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico to support oil operations. In March, the organization announced that is has made a selection for additions to achieve compliance with the ADS-B. It has opted to select the NGT-9000 by L3 Aviation. The installation of these new products has been initiated and is underway. The NGT-9000 will be joining the Westwind Fleet, which already includes Bell 206, Sikorsky 76 and MD 500.

George Bye, creator of the Sun Flyer electric trainer prototype, has teamed up with XTI Aircraft Company to accelerate development of a vertical takeoff and landing design with intention to seat six and cruise at business jet speed.

We have exciting news this week as Bell Geospace has invested in a new aircraft. This aircraft is the Basler BT-67 produced by Basler Turbo Conversions. This utility aircraft provides a long-range fuel tank that allows for the aircraft range to reach 2140 nautical miles. Bell Geospace has purchased this new utility aircraft in order to expand its worldwide and technical capacity. Bell states that “The Basler BT-67 has proven to be an efficient and reliable platform for conducting our FTG surveys, and has yielded some of our most successful surveys to date. This is already a very promising purchase and an intelligent investment from Bell Geospace that will hopefully launch more of their ideas and innovative efforts in the aerospace world.

The B-L072Z-LRWAN1 STM32 LoRa Discovery kit builds on the all-in-one open module from Murata that consolidates a STM32L072CZ microcontroller and Semtech SX1276 transceivers. The module lineaments a LoRa modem that implements ultra-long-range spread-spectrum communication and high interference immunity while reducing current expenditure. Since the module is open, developers have access to the STM32L072 MCU and its unit such as ADC, 16-bit timer, LP-UART, 12C, SPI AND USB 2.0 FS.

Vision research has released a 4k high speed camera with a 35 millimeter, 9.4-megapixel sensor capable of recording at 1,000 frames per second. The camera will be useful in aerospace research especially when recording extremely fast moving objects like propellers and chopper blades. 4k resolution and high speed shutter ability has been long sought after but technology has been the limiting factor. This camera takes no loss in speed or sensitivity, instead it boots both in an epic creation by Vision Research. Add the capability of operating in extreme temperatures and you have the perfect tool for recording high energy equipment failure.