Commercial

Japan Airlines to Deploy Thales IFE System

Japan Airlines has taken delivery of the first of five Boeing 767-300ER Domestic aircraft with the Thales TopSeries In-Flight Entertainment System onboard, the companies announced Friday. The aircraft has a total of…

Commercial

Air China Introduces Thales IFE in Fleet

Air China introduced into revenue service the first of its 15 Boeing 777s equipped with the Thales TopSeries in-flight entertainment systems onboard, Thales announced Friday. The aircraft has a total of 311…

Commercial

Boeing Demonstrates UAS Communications

Boeing on Tuesday said it demonstrated its newest narrowband communications relay aboard two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) -- an Insitu ScanEagle and a portable AeroVironment Puma All Environment (AE). According to Boeing,…

Commercial

Rockwell Collins on MAV6 Airship Project

The U.S. Air Force awarded the $86.2 million Blue Devil Block II development contract to MAV6, of Alexandria, Va., a defense technology company, who chose Rockwell Collins to equip the airship with…

ATM Modernization

ARINC Awarded Eurocontrol Contract

ARINC was awarded the contract to provide Eurocontrol with a test system to validate the functioning of VDL Mode 2 (VDL2) avionics in a multi-frequency environment. ARINC’s validation system will be installed…

Commercial

Lockheed Martin Develops Rugged Stalker UAS

Lockheed Martin developed a ruggedized version of its Stalker Unmanned Air System (UAS), called the Stalker eXtreme Endurance (XE) UAS. The company said the Stalker XE system has a flight endurance time…

Commercial

AAI UAS, AME Unmanned Systems Form Alliance

AME Unmanned Systems, a ChandlerMay company, and AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), an operating unit of Textron Systems, have entered into a strategic alliance agreement regarding unmanned systems development, the companies announced…