Commercial‘Growing Backlogs, New OEMs, Mandates’ Drive Aviation [Avionics Today April 14, 2014] Esterline CMC Electronics expects that the global aviation market will experience sustained growth over the next five to 15 years, said Vice President, Customer Support and Strategic Development…
CommercialTeledyne EADL Approved for More Boeing Aircraft [Avionics Today April 14, 2014] Teledyne Controls has added more Boeing aircraft to the list of approved models for its enhanced Airborne Data Loader (eADL), which replaces the traditional database loading procedures for…
CommercialFAA Approves CompassData for Aviation Mapping [Avionics Today April 14, 2014] The FAA has issued DO-200A certification to CompassData for the collection and processing of survey and ground control data used for the creation of its Airport Mapping Database…
ATM ModernizationExelis Completes ADS-B Nationwide Installations [Avionics Today April 14, 2014] The FAA has completed the nationwide implementation of the ground-based infrastructure for its Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) radio network under the NextGen program. ADS-B is one of…
CommercialWind River Powers F-35 Communications in Flight Test [Avionics Today April 11, 2014] Avionics Magazine recently caught up with Wind River to discuss how its VxWorks Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) Platform provided a separation kernel-based security foundation for a…
CommercialNavy's X-47B Completes First Night Flight [Avionics Today April 11, 2014] The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command's (NAVAIR) X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) completed its first night flight over Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The Navy completed…
CommercialLufthansa Technik Expands to Puerto Rico [Avionics Today April 11, 2014] Germany's Lufthansa Technik has signed an agreement to build a new aviation Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility at Rafael Hernández International Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Lufthansa…
Business & GAMaking Autopilot Systems Safer [Avionics Today April 10, 2014] Would you believe that just 30 lines of computer code might have saved Air France flight 447 from crashing into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009? Carlos Varela, an…