Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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Cobham Aerospace Communications, in partnership with Inmarsat, launched an SB-Helo X-Stream helicopter satcom for Cobham Aviator SP systems, promising improved communication and reduced packet loss of up to 40 percent. The new satcom is designed to tackle issues with the&nbsp;transmission of data such as video imagery that stem from rotor interference.

 


Inmarsat and Cobham have conducted extensive testing on a protocol in network Quality of Service (QoS) selection that enhances the Inmarsat’s L-band Swiftbroadband X-Stream service. The protocol allows data from rotary-wing aircraft to be transmitted to the Inmarsat satellite network via dedicated modulation schemes, the companies said, adding that the resiliency of the transmission will provide “an improvement in throughput of around 37 percent.”

 


A free software update will enable helicopters in remote locations to transmit a significantly improved video or data stream, they noted, saying this is particularly important for missions such as search and rescue, medical evacuation, and military forces.

 


“Having worked with Cobham in the development of this new protocol, we are very pleased with the results we have seen from the trials and foresee that this cost-effective solution will be greatly sought after in the growing government helo market,” said Todd McDonell, president of global government at Inmarsat.

 


Willem Kasselman, the v-p of sales, marketing and support at Cobham Aerospace Communications, called the launch a breakthrough, “solving a long-standing problem in helicopter satcom communications. The partnership between Cobham Aerospace Communications and Inmarsat is an important one for us and we look forward to building on this announcement and expanding and improving other related services over the coming months.”

Cobham, Inmarsat Team on Helo Satcom

The technology promises improved communication and reduced packet loss of up to 40 percent.

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