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Airbox wins Best Newcomer Award at Friedrichshafen

William Moore, one of the co-founders of Airbox took centre stage last week to collect the Best Newcomer Award at this year’s inaugural Flieger Magazin awards in Germany. The company also received nominations for two other categories for its Foresight SuperBright and Clarity 2.0 systems. The award ceremony took place at the Aero Expo show [...]

Aero Friedrichshafen 2012

Come and see Airbox Aerospace Limited at Europe’s largest aviation show in Friedrichshafen, Germany from April 18th to the 21st. We’ll be showcasing some new and exciting products for 2012 including RunwayHD for iPad and the newly revamped Aware software. Airbox is situated in Hall A5 on Stand 217 where we’ll also be setting up [...]

Olympic Airspace Restrictions – Update

News from the CAA – The first set of official supplements to the UK Air Pilot (AIP) on the changes to be introduced during the London 2012 Olympics have now been published. The supplements are the legal notification of the temporary controlled airspace, airport slot controls and the implementation of the Atlas Control air traffic [...]

Yakovlevs visit

Nice to see Jez from Team Yakovlevs yesterday at their Henstridge head quarters to discuss new software and hardware developments for the year. The four ship display schedule for 2012 is being prepared with some exciting pan-European events to be announced. More info on the team here or follow them on Twitter @TeamYakovlevs

Honeywell Bendix Trophy

Awarded to Airbox and NATS for contributions to air safety. And now the trophy has finally turned up at Airbox HQ!  

Olympic Airspace Restrictions: SOLVED!

Most people in UK aviation will be aware of the forthcoming Olympic Games and the airspace restrictions being imposed across large areas of the UK as a security measure. The major restrictions will be centered on London and the Olympic Park and will run from 14 July 2012 to 15 August 2012. A smaller set [...]

Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance

Interesting track logs from the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance’s EC135 based out of Henstridge over a recent two month period. The aircraft benefits from two panel-mounted especially adapted Foresight GPS units working in tandem. The navigator’s unit can be programmed with a route independently of the pilot’s unit and then sent through to the [...]

Terrain representation in vector and raster charting

  Representing anything on a chart is a complex weigh-up between making the feature sufficiently prominent, but yet not detracting from the more important features. This is very much a human issue, because it’s not just about the thickness of the lines or boldness on-screen. The way the colours you have chosen contrast with the [...]

New features and ideas

We at Airbox are constantly looking for new ideas and features for our products and this is a chance for our blog followers to have there say when it comes to future developments. Please feel free to comment below with anything you’d like us to consider adding to the development program. All comments will be [...]

The Yakovlev Display Team

The Yakovlevs are a UK based display team who have earned a reputation for excellence over the last 12 years, delighting over 30 million people in the process.  Consummate believers in pushing the boundaries of high performance, they exude high standards in every aspect of their operation. Yak HQ is now in a brand new [...]

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