CommercialHawaiian Airlines Discontinues 767 Use After 19 Years Hawaiian Airlines has put its last Boeing 767-300ER out to pasture after a final Sacramento, California-to-Honolulu, Hawaii flight. The jets initially replaced McDonnell-Douglas DC-10s for Hawaiian and have been getting phased out in…
CommercialBoeing Delivers Record 806 Commercial Jets in 2018 Boeing had the company's most productive year in 2018, delivering more than 800 commercial jets, including 580 Boeing 737s, about half of which were members of the 737 MAX family. Of those…
ATM ModernizationAviation Industry Hoping Government Shutdown Over Before Serious Delays Occur The U.S. government has been partially shut down since December 22, furloughing workers in "non-critical" agencies including much of the FAA and Department of Homeland Security during the busiest travel time of…
ATM ModernizationFAA Contracts NovAtel For WAAS Modernization The FAA has granted NovAtel a contract for 40 ground uplink station signal generators to help modernize its wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) navigation service network. Under the contract, NovAtel will design and…
MilitaryPAE ISR Picks Persistent for Resolute Eagle Radio PAE ISR has selected Persistent Systems' MPU5 Wave Relay mobile ad-hoc radio for use on its Resolute Eagle UAS. The selling point, according to PAE Chief Technology Officer Jake Jacobs, was the…
CommercialAirbus, Bell, Leonardo, Sikorsky Agree on Terrain-Avoidance Updates for Helos Four top helicopter builders — Airbus, Bell, Leonardo Helicopters, and Lockheed Martin's Sikorsky — have agreed on improvements for their helicopter terrain avoidance and warning systems (HTAWS), according to HeliOffshore, a safety…
MilitaryFLIR to Provide Sensors for Air Force Helos Boeing has chosen FLIR Systems to provide the electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) surveillance sensor for the U.S. Air Force UH-1N replacement helicopters it is building in concert with Leonardo. The Air Force in September…
ATM ModernizationIllegal Drone Use Grounds Gatwick Air Traffic Ahead of Christmas A United Kingdom law went into effect last July 30 that makes it a crime punishable by up to five years in jail to fly a drone within one kilometer of an…