Commercial

Airbus ROPS Certified for A320s

Airbus on Thursday announced initial EASA certification of its Runway Overrun Prevention System (ROPS) for current engine option (ceo) A320 passenger jets. ROPS, an onboard avionics system that increases pilots' situational awareness…

ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: NextGen Matters  

FAA in late June released its much anticipated, but delayed, NextGen Implementation Report, providing a roadmap for implementation and putting dollar amounts and other metrics on how much NextGen will improve our…

ATM Modernization

Saab Sensis to Perform NextGen Research for NASA

Saab Sensis, a subsidiary of Saab of Sweden, has been awarded a NASA contract to perform research on airborne and ground systems for flight safety and air traffic management.    Contract length…

Embedded Avionics

Northrop Grumman Delivers 100th F-35 Avionics System

Northrop Grumman on Monday announced the delivery of its 100th avionics system for Lockheed Martin's fifth generation F-35 Lighting II fighter jet.      (A Northrop Grumman test engineer conducts manufacturing testing…

Commercial

FAA Issues First Commercial UAS Type Certificates

FAA issued the first restricted type certificates to permit commercial operations with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) recently, authorizing Insitu's Scan Eagle X200 and AeroVironment's PUMA to begin flying commercial missions within the National…

Commercial

Rockwell Collins, Jeppesen Streamline Flight Data Uploads

Rockwell Collins on Monday announced a new agreement at the EAA AirVenture show to begin automatically transferring Jeppesen electronic flight charts to flight decks using its Ascend Aircraft Information Manager (AIM).     …

Business & GA

Gulfstream's EVS II, HUD II Approved for G280

Gulfstream's Enhanced Vision System (EVS) II and Head-Up Display (HUD) II for the G280 has been certified by FAA, the airframe manufacturer said Thursday. The FAA certification means the enhanced flight vision…