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| 09.03.2010 |
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Delta to Upgrade 747-400 Interiors
Delta Air Lines on Thursday unveiled plans to upgrade the interiors of its Boeing 747-400s flying primarily from the Tokyo-Narita hub to include new seats and new in-flight entertainment options. Between summer 2011 and 2012, Delta will equip...
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| 09.02.2010 |
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Northrop Grumman Wins U.K. ATC Contract
Northrop Grumman's Europe-based air traffic management systems subsidiary, Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems, has been awarded contracts by NATS Services to provide surface movement radar and air traffic monitor systems for Heathrow airport's virtual...
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| 09.01.2010 |
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Editor's Note: Airshow Revisited
It didn’t bode well that I arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport simultaneously with several other flights from who knows where. Because of that unfortunate coincidence, I had more than an hour to study the scuffed, cranberry colored, vaguely...
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| 09.01.2010 |
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Industry Scan
Military Project Julius Thales in July reported delivering the first shipset of avionics hardware it is providing for British Royal Air Force CH-47 Chinooks as part of Project Julius, a $650 million avionics and engine upgrade of the RAF Chinook fleet...
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| 09.01.2010 |
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People
Ken Tollstam SRA International, of Fairfax, Va., named Ken Tollstam vice president within its Aviation Programs business group. Tollstam will be responsible for leveraging SRA’s technology in the domestic air-traffic management (ATM) market as it...
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| 09.01.2010 |
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Calendar
September 13-16 Autotestcon 2010, Marriott Orlando World Center Resort & Convention Center, Orlando, Fla. Visit http://autotestcon.com. 13-16 Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) Annual Conference & Exhibition, Long Beach Convention and...
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| 09.01.2010 |
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Jammer Next
With the award of technology maturation contracts to four industry teams in July, the U.S. Navy NextGen Jammer (NGJ) program within two years will advance from competing concepts to prototypes of the electronic warfare sensor of the future. ITT Electronic...
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| 09.01.2010 |
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Product Focus: Test Equipment
About four months into its most important modernization program for the testing of aircraft avionics, automatic test equipment (ATE) engineers at the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) are excited about how the electronic Consolidated Automated Support...
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| 09.01.2010 |
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New Products
Optical Network Interconnections French aerospace connector manufacturer Souriau and Protokraft, of Kingsport, Tenn., have developed optical network interconnections using Souriau’s ELIO optical interfaces. Protokraft introduced the Sabre Series of...
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| 09.01.2010 |
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FAA’s New Deputy Administrator Discusses Challenges Of NextGen Transition
Michael P. Huerta was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as FAA deputy administrator on June 23. He was nominated to the position by President Obama last December, but the appointment was blocked by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. The hitch: Cornyn wanted FAA to...
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| 09.01.2010 |
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AV Awarded Puma UAS Contract
AeroVironment (AV), of Monrovia, Calif., received a $35.3 million contract delivery order for digital Puma All Environment (AE) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), spares and training services. The equipment and services were procured under the existing...
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| 09.01.2010 |
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IFE System Health
The AEEC Cabin Systems Subcommittee (CSS) has developed Supplement 1 to ARINC Specification 628: “Cabin Equipment Interface (CEI), Part 8, In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) Equipment Standard Availability Measurement Guidelines,” adopted by the AEEC...
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| 09.01.2010 |
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KSU Avionics Program Earns Accreditation
Kansas State University's avionics program has been accredited by the National Center for Aerospace and Transportation Technologies, the university announced Wednesday. The accreditation means the program, offered at K-State Salina, meets or...
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| 08.31.2010 |
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CAE Wins C-5 Trainer Contracts
CAE was awarded a $10 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to upgrade two C-5 Galaxy weapon systems trainers (WST). The contract includes options to upgrade additional C-5 WSTs as well as C-5 cockpit procedures trainers that could bring the value to more...
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| 08.27.2010 |
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Metron Launches ATFM System for Airlines
Metron Aviation, based in Dulles, Va., released Metron Harmony for Airlines, a system that integrates a real-time and predictive view of air traffic conditions with airport surface operations to improve on-time performance, reduce tarmac...
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| 08.27.2010 |
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Boeing Launches 787 Pilot Certification
Boeing has started 787 Dreamliner flight certification training following the provisional approval from FAA for Boeing's Seattle-based 787 flight training devices. As part of flight training, pilots train on a 787 flat panel training device and a 787...
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| 08.26.2010 |
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Rockwell Collins to Provide STUAS Flight Controls
Rockwell Collins was selected to provide flight control and navigation systems for the Small Tactical Unmanned Air System (STUAS) program, the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based company announced Tuesday. Boeing subsidiary Insitu, of Bingen, Wash....
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| 08.26.2010 |
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QinetiQ Files for Records for Solar UAS
U.K.-based QinetiQ has filed for three world records for Zephyr, its solar powered high-altitude long endurance (HALE) Unmanned Air System (UAS), with the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI), the company announced Tuesday. The records, subject...
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| 08.25.2010 |
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Lockheed Martin Awarded U.K. UAV Contract
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence awarded Lockheed Martin a $5.1 million contract for additional Desert Hawk III unmanned aircraft vehicles. Awarded by the MoD's Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) organization, the latest contract calls for...
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| 08.25.2010 |
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Honeywell Wins T-Hawk Army Contract
Honeywell will provide its T-Hawk micro air vehicle systems, training and logistics support as part of an $11 million contract for the low-rate initial production of the initial brigade set of the Brigade Combat Team Modernization (BCTM) Increment 1...
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