Farnborough International Airshow

The future of Aviation

17 Jul 2018

Will supersonic travel boom without its ‘boom’?

Demand from Asia, which never saw the Concorde in commercial service, is one source of the developing demand for supersonic travel over both land and sea, although North America appears still to be the biggest potential market. ...

16 Jul 2018

Electrical Propulsion: Ready for Takeoff

Electrified aircraft can help us achieve Clean Sky targets, which aims for a 50% cut in CO2 emissions and an 80% cut in NOx emissions by 2020. Thales expertise is accelerating the transition through stepped up R&D to develop solutions able to power the various electric...

16 Jul 2018

Will the city of the future have its roads in the sky?

“It’s beginning to happen now, with cities, aircraft manufacturers and even Uber announcing air taxis over the next few years,” explains André Cléroux, Avionic Functions Product Line Director at Thales.

01 Jul 2021

Coming your way soon: a new wave of air transport

Thales is working with Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs), the organizations that manage traffic for a region or country, to develop solutions for safely enabling drones to operate alongside traditional manned aircraft. Thales’s Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic ...

11 Jul 2018

Heads Up! Controlling Rush Hour in the Sky for Safe Air Travel

Soon, planes will be competing for airspace with drones and other UAVs, “air taxis” (four-passenger commuter vehicles), supersonic transport, more satellite launches and military missions, plus a whole new category of vehicles being sent up by Amazon, Facebook and othe...

11 Jul 2018

AI in the Cockpit: Why is the pilot of your plane on the ground?

Increasing air traffic, reduced separation between planes, heavier workloads. Future pilots will have less time to react and the risks are greater. The solution is AI.

05 Jul 2018

��Ƶ Aviation 2040: What the Explosion in Air Travel Means to You

The numbers tell the story. “By 2040, there will be three times as many passengers, twice as many commercial aircraft and literally thousands and thousands of four- passenger individual vehicles,” says André Cléroux of Thales. ...

10 Apr 2018

Today’s airtickets are as much about entertainment offering as they are about travel

How new Thales Big Data technologies now gives airlines a strategic advantage over inflight entertainment competitors. Discover tomorrow's passenger-centric entertainment ecosystem.

Defence

03 Jul 2018

A salute to the Sea King

As the last Sea King helicopters approach retirement a new chapter in airborne surveillance is opening.

15 Jun 2018

Making Your Skies Safe - Stopping Dangerous Drones

Drones are proliferating so swiftly and using such sophisticated technology that legislation is barely keeping up. Thales is today finding new ways to monitor, control or scramble transmissions from unmanned air vehicles.

05 Jun 2018

Clearing the jungle of intelligence to unearth the winning military strategy

It’s an information jungle out there. That’s why clients come to us, because we make that information clear, for better decisions,” shares Matt Moore, Head of UAS Strategy and Product Development at Thales.

Security

11 Jul 2018

Putting trust into digital transformation

We already have the technology to move into the new Age of Digital Transformation. So what’s holding us back?

19 Mar 2018

Collaborative management: the key for airport efficiency and passengers’ stress-free experience?

Thales's Total Airport Management solutions connect live data from main airport stakeholders, airside and landside. What emerges is streamlined realtime performance, with better aircraft turnaround times and a better customer experience. ...

22 Feb 2018

Airport security: protecting people, infrastructure and data

As the nature of security threats facing airports is constantly evolving, so too must the mechanisms for detecting and preventing them to ensure that they remain safe places for passengers and airport staff worldwide.

Space

18 Jul 2018

Spacebus Neo: the ideal platform for very high throughput telecom satellites!

Today we want to be connected anywhere and anytime; we want to have access to more and more content at any given moment; we want to eliminate all shadow zones and bridge the digital divide to ensure connectivity anywhere in the world. Satellite telecommunications syste...

16 Jul 2018

2018 Farnborough Airshow: join us on a trip into the heart of Space!

The European satellite-maker will be highlighting its wide range of activities at this event. The focus will be on constellations, such as Iridium® NEXT for telecommunications, BlackSky for Earth Observation, the new Spacebus NEO telecom product line, and space explora...

13 Jul 2018

Thales Alenia Space exhibits its Space Digital Experience at Farnborough International Airshow 2018

13th July 2018 - UK. Thales Alenia Space introduces a breathtaking journey into space with an immersive Space Digital Experience at Farnborough International Airshow 2018 from 16 to 22 July on the Thales Alenia Space stand in the Space Zone and in the Thales Chalet. ...