Commercial

Curtiss-Wright Releases COTS SBCs for Aerospace Applications

3U OpenVPX VPX3-1220 and XMC-121 XMC processor mezzanine card. Photo: Curtiss-Wright [Avionics Today 08-25-2016] Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division has introduced two new small form factor Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Single Board Computers (SBCs) based…

Commercial

Belfast Airport Launches Advanced ILS

Andy Irving, NATS Group Engineering Manager, Michael Cockcroft, NATS’ General Manager ATS, and Graham Keddie, Managing Director at Belfast International Airport, with the airport’s newly-erected ILS runway radio antenna. Photo: NATS [Avionics…

Commercial

Play the Avionics News Quiz of August 26

A baby born four-hours into a Cebu Pacific flight from Dubai to Manilla was gifted 1 million free air miles by the airline this week. Now how’s that for airline perks? Don’t…

ATM Modernization

Equip ADS-B Marketplace Launches to Streamline GA Equipage

Photo: Equip ADS-B Marketplace [Avionics Today 08-25-2016] A new website, The Equip ADS-B Marketplace, aimed at upping Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) equipage for General Aviation (GA) aircraft owners, is nearing launch on…

Commercial

CNN Launches Newsgathering UAS

CNN’s newsgathering UAS. Photo: CNN [Avionics Today 08-24-2016] CNN has launched a newsgathering Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), CNN Aerial Imagery and Reporting (CNN AIR). The designated UAS unit will have two full-time…

Commercial

DroneDeploy Raises $20 Million to Expand UAS Aerial Data

DroneDeploy elevation map on a tablet. Photo: DroneDeploy [Avionics Today 08-24-2016] DroneDeploy, a cloud software platform for commercial drones, has raised $20 million in Series B financing led by Scale Venture Partners,…

Business & GA

Inmarsat Clears JetWave for GX Aviation Operations

[Avionics Magazine 08-24-2016] Inmarsat has issued Final Type Approval (FTA) for Honeywell Aerospace’s JetWave hardware, which enables broadband connectivity for aircraft under the new Global Xpress (GX) Aviation satellite network. Approval follows…