ATM ModernizationERAU to Study Precision Landings at Small Airports A team of researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has received funding for a project to assess the performance of pilots when they land small airplanes at small airports using an approach normally…
Business & GAEclipse Selects EVS Supplier for Eclipse 550 Eclipse Aerospace selected Lexavia Integrated Systems, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., to supply the Enhanced Vision system in the Eclipse 550 Jet, scheduled for first delivery in the third quarter 2013. The Lexavia model…
Business & GABlackhawk Introduces FAA-Approved TMS for Cessna 208B Caravan Blackhawk Modifications announced a new feature for its Cessna 208B Caravan XP42A upgrade package, the Flightline System Ultra Trend Monitoring System (TMS). FAA has approved the Ultra Trend Monitoring System for use…
CommercialNavy Awards Honeywell $181 Million for Global Aircraft Fleet Maintenance NAVSUP Weapons Systems Support (WSS) awarded Honeywell a follow-on five-year $181 million contract to provide logistics support for auxiliary power units (APUs) for F/A-18 A-G, P-3, C-2, as well as F/A-18 main…
Business & GAEditor's Note: Recalculating What started out as military-only network has exploded so that everyone, everywhere is connected via GPS. You can get GPS in your car, on your phone, on the boat, and, yes, even…
CommercialLetters UAS in the NAS I had occasion to read Emily Feliz’s Editor’s Note in the September issue. I have no quarrel with what she says; it is just that she did not…
Business & GAIndustry Scan Photo courtesy Lockheed Martin Lockheed, Air Force Fix C-5M ‘Deficiencies’ The U.S. Air Force’s C-5M program has fixed some of the problems that arose during two major modernization initiatives for the…
CommercialManaging Obsolescence A B-52H Stratofortress takes off from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, in 2009. The U.S. Air Force’s aging airplanes need careful tending — especially their airframes and engines. But the avionics systems…