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January 25, 2013
Maldives national carrier Maldivian Airlines has selected U.K.-based IFE Services to provide in-flight entertainment for its...January 25, 2013
NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) is conducting missions to study the impact of atmospheric change on the Earth’s climate, the manufacturer said. The missions are part of the Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) campaign, studying the region of the upper...January 24, 2013
ITT Exelis filed a formal protest with FAA over the $331 million datacomm contract awarded to Harris Corp. in September, Avionics Magazine has learned. The protest, which was filed in November with FAA's Office of Dispute Resolution for Acquisition (ODRA) for review, asks the agency to review "aspects of the evaluation that warrant further review," ITT said in a...January 24, 2013
Rockwell Collins and BAE Systems have extended their Data Link Solutions (DLS) joint venture, the provider of the Link-16 military networked communications solution. (The Data Link Solutions MIDS-LVT) The two companies first established DLS in 1996, which now...January 24, 2013
San Jose, Costa Rica-based avionics engineering company Avionyx S.A. has appointed Peter Lyons as its new...January 23, 2013
AeroVironment, of Monrovia, Calif., has been awarded a $12 million contract from NAVAIR’s Program Office for Navy & Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PMA-263), working collaboratively with the Army’s Counter-IED Program Office, for AeroVironment Wasp AE small unmanned aircraft systems, initial spares packages, training...January 23, 2013
Naviair, the Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) for Denmark, has selected Saab Sensis Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) for surveillance of flights over Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Naviair will be providing ADS-B data of equipped en route flights to the Reykjavik Control Area Center. The Naviair system will enable reduced flight separation between equipped aircraft and provide...January 23, 2013
The U.S. Air Force awarded a $2.15 million contract to ITT Exelis to research the development of low-cost GPS capabilities to aid end-users located in signal-constrained environments. Exelis said the 18-month initial...January 22, 2013
Row 44, of Westlake Village, Calif., said its in-flight entertainment and connectivity service, which includes high-speed Internet, shopping, destination services, and real-time flight map with updates, has been installed on 400 Southwest Airlines aircraft, the companies said Tuesday. "The 400th installation of broadband capabilities on our fleet is a particularly significant milestone for...January 22, 2013
(UPDATED) The European Aviation Safety Agency has recertified an upgraded Airbus A320 full flight simulator (FFS) at L-3 Link’s Asian Aviation Training Center (AATC) in Thailand to a Level D type rating. (AATC's A320 FFS) Level D is the highest achievable FFS certification, granted by EASA and FAA. The rating requires an FFS motion...January 18, 2013
Garmin on Tuesday released a new series of VHF comm and navcom radios with features that are compliant with the 8.33 kHz channel spacing mandate recently enacted by the European Union as part of its Single European Sky (SES) initiative. The new GTR 225 (VHF COM) and GNC 255 (VHF NAV/COM) radios feature an internal database that displays the station identifier when a pilot tunes a specific...January 17, 2013
The U.S. Army is exercising a $90.6 million option with Lockheed Martin for sustainment of the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) system for its...January 16, 2013
United Airlines launched in-flight connectivity powered by Panasonic Avionics’ Ku-band satellite service on its first commercial flight Tuesday. United is the first U.S.-based carrier to offer passengers Wi-Fi internet connectivity on long-haul trans-oceanic flights. The first plane to be outfitted...January 16, 2013
Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems said it delivered the first integrated nationwide Internet Protocol (IP)-based air traffic management (ATM) system to provide voice communications for all aircraft operating in Urugay. Park...January 16, 2013
FAA officials along with representatives from aviation manufacturing companies, pilot and flight attendant groups, airlines and mobile technology experts held their first meeting Tuesday to study FAA’s policies regulating use of portable electronic devices (PEDs) on commercial airline flights. The agency’s current...January 15, 2013
Duncan Aviation, based in Lincoln, Neb., has partnered with Universal Avionics, of Tucson, Ariz., to install and certify an advanced cockpit for the Dassault Falcon 900B, the companies said Tuesday. This cockpit upgrade replaces 25 older instruments and will have five high-resolution Universal EFI-890R LED backlit LCD displays, including Engine Indication that will replace the analog gauges...January 15, 2013
Golden Myanmar Airlines, which began operations at the start of this year, will be using the navigation charts provided by Lufthansa Systems' Lido/RouteManual systems, under a five-year contract announced Tuesday. The Lufthansa Systems navigation charts are...January 15, 2013
Level 3 Communications B.V. — affiliate of Level 3 Communications — signed a contract with the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) to install an IP Virtual Private Network for the NATO-Russia Council Cooperative Airspace Initiative (NRC CAI), an information exchange to...January 14, 2013
Northrop Grumman and EADS subsidiary Cassidian conducted the first successful test flight of the Euro Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The six-hour test flight occurred over Germany’s Manching Air Base, and allowed the two companies to test the aircraft’s signals intelligence...January 14, 2013
Delta Air Lines released its new Fly Delta iPad app, which allows customers on commercial flights to see exactly where the airplane is and how fast it is traveling. The “glass bottom jet” feature offers a view of the plane flying over an interactive map, with social network integration that...
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