The Airbus A350 Demonstrator That Could Make Ground-Based Landing Systems Obsolete

In June 2018, Airbus launched the Autonomous Taxi Takeoff and Landing project and began a path towards transforming aviation technology. The Titanic European plane maker aims to bring a paradigm shift in the form of software-defined aircraft that decouple hardware from the programs they run to transform next-generation airliners. While Airbus was a pioneer of fly-by-wire technology in the 1970s, the latest watchword is ‘Fly by Code’ under this campaign to make airliners upgradeable, hyper-connected digital platforms.