Embedded Avionics

Northrop Grumman Awarded STC for Air Claw

Photo courtesy Northop Grumman FAA issued a multiuse supplemental type certificate (STC) to Northrop Grumman's Air Claw, Quest KODIAK 100-based short take-off and landing aircraft. The multiuse STC validates the quality of design and integration…

Business & GA

Aircell Releases ATG 2000 

Gogo subsidiary Aircell unveiled a new equipment package providing Internet and voice service for business jets Monday, ATG 2000.    The new package provides Internet and voice services for light jets and…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Electronic Flight Bags

Pads are quickly becoming standard equipment in the cockpits of commercial aircraft. American Airlines, the first carrier to receive FAA clearance to use the devices in all phases of flight, has spearheaded…

Commercial

System Design: The Rest of the 787 Story

A NTSB photo of the burned auxiliary power unit (APU) battery from a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 that caught fire in January. When I finished the first Avionics article on the Boeing…

Business & GA

New Products

In-Flight Voice, Text Aircell added voice capabilities to its Gogo Biz in-flight internet service. The company said it can offer internet and voice capabilities from a single system, which can reduce equipment…

ATM Modernization

People

Greg Roberts Curtiss-Wright Controls named Greg Roberts vice president of its Avionics & Electronics division. Roberts joins Curtiss-Wright from Northrop Grumman, Defense and Security business, U.K., where he was managing director responsible…

Commercial

Perspectives: CMHP Considerations

Coming soon, all airlines will use the Internet and FAA’s enhanced, secure-connection Common Message Handling Protocol (CMHP) to access FAA for all National Airspace System (NAS) subsystems, including the National Airspace Data…