Business & GAParis Air Show 2013 Preview Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected at Le Bourget airfield next week for the 50th annual International Paris Airshow, bringing together commercial and military aircraft and technology displays. Avionics Magazine has…
CommercialNAVAIR Advances RQ-21A Flight Testing The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) on Wednesday conducted the first east coast flight with Insitu's RQ-21A unmanned aircraft system (UAS) at its Patuxent River, Md., base. (RQ-21A takes its…
CommercialFAA Proposes New Landings Aided by Flight Vision Systems FAA is proposing a new landing procedure for operators using aircraft equipped with Enhanced Flight Vision Systems (EFVS), in an effort to increase access and throughput at airports when low visibility conditions…
Editor's NoteIDENT, Quicksilver Partner for GT-500 Surveillance Upgrades Quicksilver's GT-500 aircraft will receive some surveillance upgrades beginning this fall, the result of the manufacturer's new partnership with Jacksonville, Fla.-based aerial intelligence company IDENT. (IDENT/Quicksilver Mosquito GT-500 Patrolling the…
CommercialJetBlue Doubles In-Flight Internet Contract with ViaSat JetBlue is doubling its contract commitment for in-flight connectivity with ViaSat to $20 million, upgrading its 2011 agreement to deploy the first Ka-band commercial aviation broadband network on its commercial aircraft fleet. …
CommercialGAO Study Approves FAA Oversight of Cockpit Smoke Prevention A Government Accountability Office (GAO) study released this month determined FAA has exercised sufficient oversight of new technologies to prevent smoke from entering the cockpit in commercial aircraft. Between September 2012…
CommercialParamount Group Acquires ATE African aerospace and defense company Paramount Group has acquired Advanced Technology and Engineering Co. (ATE), one of the longest running aerospace engineering firms in Africa. ATE, which specializes in the production…
Embedded AvionicsThales I-Master Radar Completes Test Flights Thales' new I-Master radar system completed test flights on a Diamond DA42MPP GUARDIAN aircraft recently, during a week-long trial in Austria. During the flights, I-Master was used to transmit high resolution…
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