CommercialQantas to Use Boeing Health Management System Boeing signed an agreement with Australia’s Qantas Airways to use Boeing’s Airplane Health Management (AHM) on its fleet of 747-400s. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Also, Qantas said it…
CommercialJeppesen Software Approved for EFB Application Jeppesen, based in Englewood, Colo., was granted FAA TSO approval for its Airport Moving Map application for Class 2 Electronic Flight Bags (EFB). The application, the company said, uses a database to…
Business & GAEmbry-Riddle Team Studies Helicopter HUMS Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, in conjunction with Tomlinson Aviation, of Ormond Beach, Fla., and Systems & Electronics, of Chicago, completed the first of a series of helicopter research flights demonstrating Health and Usage…
MilitaryNorthrop Grumman Wins Navy Contract Northrop Grumman won a $13.5 million contract modification with the U.S. Navy for cost growth and new requirements related to the development of the Rapid Airborne Mine Clearance System, an airborne mine…
Business & GABoeing Flight Tests SAR on UAV Boeing, in partnership with Salem, Utah-based ImSAR and Insitu Inc., based in Bingen, Wash., flight tested NanoSAR, the world's smallest Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), aboard the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft. During the 1.5-hour…
Business & GAGulfstream Demonstrates Fly-By-Light System Gulfstream Aerospace demonstrated aircraft control using fiber-optic “Fly-By-Light“ (FBL) technology, the first time, the company said, that FBL has been tested on a primary flight-control surface of a Gulfstream business aircraft. During…
MilitaryRadar to Be Part of Fire Scout UAV Platform Radar will be incorporated onto Northrop Grumman's MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV), the company said. Northrop Grumman first demonstrated radar capability on the RQ-8A Fire…
Business & GAInsitu UAV Completes Flight Test Insitu, based in Bingen, Wash., said its Integrator unmanned aircraft (UA) completed a flight test using its new software and avionics architecture. Athena Technologies, in Warrenton, Va., provided a customized autopilot system…
MilitaryITT Avionics Wins Air Force Contract ITT Avionics, based in Chandler, Ariz., was awarded a $78.1 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide its ALQ-211(V)4 Advanced Integrated Defense Electronics Warfare system on F-16s for Pakistan. The…
MilitaryRaytheon Awarded Airborne Sonar Contract Raytheon received two U.S. Navy contracts worth $89 million to provide the AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low Frequency Sonar system, the primary undersea warfare sensor for the U.S. Navy's MH-60R multi-mission helicopter. The airborne…