CommercialGarmin Introduces New Aviation VHF Radios Garmin on Tuesday released a new series of VHF comm and navcom radios with features that are compliant with the 8.33 kHz channel spacing mandate recently enacted by the European Union as…
Embedded AvionicsU.S. Army Exercises $90 Million Option for Apache Avionics Upgrades The U.S. Army is exercising a $90.6 million option with Lockheed Martin for sustainment of the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor (M-TADS/PNVS) system for its Apache helicopters. (Lockheed's M-TADS/PNVS…
CommercialUnited Airlines Introduces Satellite-Based In-Flight Connectivity United Airlines launched in-flight connectivity powered by Panasonic Avionics’ Ku-band satellite service on its first commercial flight Tuesday. United is the first U.S.-based carrier to offer passengers Wi-Fi internet connectivity on long-haul…
ATM ModernizationNorthrop Grumman, Uruguay to Launch IP-Based Air Traffic System Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems said it delivered the first integrated nationwide Internet Protocol (IP)-based air traffic management (ATM) system to provide voice communications for all aircraft operating in Urugay. Park Air…
CommercialGovernment-Industry Group Begins Study of FAA’s PED Policies FAA officials along with representatives from aviation manufacturing companies, pilot and flight attendant groups, airlines and mobile technology experts held their first meeting Tuesday to study FAA’s policies regulating use of portable…
ATM ModernizationLevel 3 Signs NATO-Russia Air Traffic Deal Level 3 Communications B.V. — affiliate of Level 3 Communications — signed a contract with the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) to install an IP Virtual Private Network for the NATO-Russia…
CommercialNorthrop Grumman, Cassidian Complete First Euro Hawk Flight Test Northrop Grumman and EADS subsidiary Cassidian conducted the first successful test flight of the Euro Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS). The six-hour test flight occurred over Germany’s Manching Air Base, and allowed…
CommercialDelta Launches New iPad App Delta Air Lines released its new Fly Delta iPad app, which allows customers on commercial flights to see exactly where the airplane is and how fast it is traveling. The “glass bottom…