Collins Aerospace News

Collins Aerospace has successfully demonstrated its next-generation life support systems for deep space habitation as part of a ceremonial event with NASA at its laboratory in Windsor Locks, Conn. The demonstration completes the company’s multi-year program supporting NASA’s public-private partnership enabled by the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (NextSTEP-2) Broad Agency  Announcement, Appendix A. Air Revitalisation System Collins’ solution is a...

As a company aspiring to be climate neutral by 2030, Bertelsmann, a media, services, and education company based in Gütersloh, Germany, and operating in about 50 countries around the world are taking a step in the right direction after going paperless in the cockpits of its corporate aircraft and becoming the first certified business jet operator in Germany to achieve fully paperless flight operations. Flight support services Bertelsmann has been working with Collins Aerospace for mo...

Collins Aerospace has been selected as the Mission System solutions provider for the next phase of the Air Launched Effects (ALE) small programme for Army Aviation’s Enduring and Future Vertical Lift (FVL) fleet. In November 2021, Collins Aerospace successfully demonstrated the ready-now RapidEdge™ Mission System to support this critical programme. ALE is an attritable Family of Systems (FoS) Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) that is launched from a helicopter, large UAS or other alterna...

Collins Aerospace broke ground on a $14 million expansion of its additive manufacturing centre in West Des Moines, Iowa. The 9,000-square-foot expansion will allow Collins to make room for more 3D metal printers, in addition to the three it already has onsite. The first new printer will have eight times the build volume of the existing printers and Collins expects it to be fully operational in late 2023. Fuel nozzles Collins’ 41,000-square-foot West Des Moines facility is a world’...

The Collins Aerospace HF-9500 High Frequency (HF) airborne communications system has been selected by Lockheed Martin for all future international C-130J Super Hercules Foreign Military Sales (FMS) production aircraft. The HF-9500 is available and ready now, replacing the legacy ARC-190 previously offered for international C-130J customers. A complete system The HF-9500 is a complete system comprising of a modernized receiver-transmitter, antenna coupler and radio control that is easily integ...

Boom Supersonic, the company building the world’s fastest airliner, optimised for speed, safety and sustainability, announced at the Farnborough International Airshow an agreement with Collins Aerospace on the Overture programme. Carrying 65–80 passengers at twice the speed of today’s airliners and running on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), Overture will fly Mach 1.7 over water with a range of 4,250 nautical miles. The new agreement Under the new agreement between the...

Collins Aerospace has produced the first working prototype of its 500 kilowatt electric motor suitable for the Airlander 10 aircraft under a partnership with Hybrid Air Vehicles and the University of Nottingham. Collins has begun basic characterisation testing of the motor at the University of Nottingham. For the 2,000 RPM permanent magnet electric motor, Collins is targetting specific power density levels of 9 kilowatts per kilogram and 98% efficiency through the use of a novel motor topology...

Collins Aerospace has completed deployment of its ARINC SelfPass™ biometrics solution at Haneda Airport, one of the busiest airports in Asia, streamlining passenger processing through reduced physical interactions and bottlenecks at multiple passenger touchpoints. Collins Aerospace is a Raytheon Technologies business. “Our ‘Face Express’ system will allow passengers to efficiently proceed through procedures at the airport (baggage drop, security checkpoint entrance,...