CommercialCathay Pacific Selects Panasonic IFE System Cathay Pacific Airways and Panasonic Avionics Corp., of Lake Forest, Calif., announced Tuesday the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the provision of full broadband connectivity on all Cathay Pacific and…
Business & GACAE Books $52 Million in Simulator Orders CAE, of Montreal, was awarded $52 million in contracts in training systems for Bombardier, ATR, Vietnam Airlines, and an undisclosed U.S.-based legacy airline. Bombardier purchased a CAE 7000 Series FFS to Bombardier…
ATM ModernizationNav Canada Acquires Searidge Nav Canada has acquired the majority interest in Searidge Technologies Inc., a Quebec-based provider of video systems to air traffic control and airport markets, the companies announced Thursday. Financial details of the…
ATM ModernizationNorthrop Grumman in UAV Refueling Contract Northrop Grumman was awarded a $33 million contract from DARPA to demonstrate aerial refueling of a NASA Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) by a sister ship. The program will be designated…
Military‘Such A Capable Helmet’ Stealthy, supersonic and sensor-rich, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, or Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), will engage air and ground targets day or night. Key to using the F-35 in combat is…
Embedded AvionicsMove Over, VME Standards-based aviation computing took off with VME (Versa Module Eurocard) when the military switched from mil-spec to commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) processors. But this ubiquitous parallel bus technology has reached a speed limit.…
ATM ModernizationProduct Focus: Data Comm Data communications is a key transformational program within FAA’s NextGen effort. To meet future demands and avoid gridlock in the sky and at airports, the agency’s NextGen Data Communications Program is designed…
CommercialPerspectives: Corrosion Prevention The Perspectives column, “Finding No Fault,” by Ken Anderson (Avionics, February 2010, page 38) was informative and factual regarding the high cost of No Fault Found (NFF) electronics within the aviation industry.…
CommercialLufthansa Systems Names New CEO Lufthansa Systems named Stefan Hansen its new CEO, succeeding Wolfgang F. W. Gohde, who has left the company, the company announced Thursday. Hansen has been with Lufthansa Systems since 1999, most recently heading…
CommercialEuro Hawk UAS Completes First Flight The Euro Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS), an international configuration of the RQ-4 Global Hawk built by Northrop Grumman and EADS Defence & Security, completed its first flight June 29. It took…