Business & GAProduct Focus: Antennas Components of the Cobham AVIATOR 300 system include, from left to right, High Power Amplifier, Low Noise Amplifier and Diplexer; intermediate gain antenna; handset; and a SwiftBroadband Unit. Equipped with iPads, smart…
Business & GASystem Design: Effective Avionics Backlighting Typical turn-key lighted panel design from Anodyne Electronics Manufacturing (AEM), Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, includes digital display, tacticle switches and backlit rubber keyboard. Backlit panels and controls are a critical part of cockpit…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Challenges for FAA’s Airline Safety Regulations Lead FAA is facing budgetary challenges and industry opposition to provisions of the 2010 Airline Safety and FAA Extension Act, according to a Department of Transportation’s…
ATM ModernizationHuerta: Air Traffic Controllers Will Be Furloughed Under Sequestration FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told the House Subcommittee on Aviation on Wednesday his agency cannot avoid furloughing its employees under its $600 million in automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect this…
CommercialChina Eastern Airlines Selects Honeywell Avionics Systems Honeywell has extended its strategic partnership with China Eastern Airlines, signing a series of agreements to provide avionics products for 58 new Boeing 737NGs, scheduled to be delivered over the next five…
CommercialL-3 Link Updates A380 Simulator L-3 Link’s Crawley, U.K.-based operation has updated a Lufthansa flight training A380 simulator to the latest Airbus 1.3 product baseline. The updates focused on the simulator’s aircraft systems, avionics and flight aero…
Business & GAAstronics EVS System Approved for Bell Helicopters in China Astronics’s Max-Viz-1500 enhanced vision system received approval by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) for retrofit installation in Bell B206B/206L-4/407 helicopters. “Astronics concurs with Bell Helicopter’s assessment that China will be…
CommercialBoeing’s Phantom Eye Flies Higher, Longer in Second Flight Boeing’s Phantom Eye unmanned aircraft system (UAS) made its second flight Monday at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (Boeing Phantom Eye. Photo, courtesy of Boeing.) The liquid-hydrogen powered UAS climbed to an…