CommercialRockwell Buys ISR Engineering Company Rockwell Collins said it paid $38 million in cash for Information Technology and Applications Corp. (ITAC), a privately held engineering and products company that provides intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR) and communications services.…
CommercialVirgin America Begins Revenue Operations Start-up airline Virgin America was to conduct inaugural flights today from New York Kennedy and Los Angeles International airports to its home base at San Francisco International Airport. Virgin America’s Airbus A320s…
MilitaryRaytheon Wins Super Hornet Radar Pact Raytheon won a $24.4 million contract with the U.S. Navy to equip Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18F Super Hornets with the ALR-67(V)3 digital radar warning receiver. The contract, which Raytheon said…
CommercialCAE Nets $48 Million Orders Canadian simulator company CAE said it signed contracts to design and manufacture three CAE 7000 Series full-flight simulators (FFSs) and a suite of Boeing 787 maintenance training devices. The total value of…
CommercialAmerican Launches Broadband Tests American Airlines said it is partnering with AirCell to become one of the first U.S.-based airline to launch in-flight broadband capabilities as it begins testing services in the United States in 2008.…
Business & GAPanasonic Avionics Names New CEO Panasonic Avionics, the Lake Forest, Calif.-based in-flight entertainment (IFE) supplier, named Paul Margis its new CEO, the company announced Wednesday. Margis joined the company in 1992 and has more than 30 years…
CommercialEmergency Lighting System Gets STC STG Aerospace received a supplemental type certificate (STC) for its Wireless Emergency Primary Power System for the whole Boeing 737NG family, the U.K.-based company said. The emergency lighting system has a built-in…
CommercialCover Story: RNP on Approach Considered by some as the ultimate breakthrough allowing the transition from ground-based to aircraft-based navigation, Required Navigation Performance (RNP) has enjoyed a rather slow, decade-long evolution. But recent developments in the United…
CommercialCommercial: Engine Prognostics From sensors to software, enhanced elements in turbine engine health monitoring and management systems (EHMS) are well worth their Krugerrand weight for providing faster, more detailed engine lifetime prediction. In the "time…
MilitaryMilitary: Legacy Systems, New Life Advances in targeting pods and the flexibility of fighter aircraft to do more than drop bombs have given the U.S. military a unique capability to gather and disseminate real-time data on everything…