Business & GA

ViaSat High-Speed Internet Offered as Factory Option

ViaSat Inc. has been selected by Bombardier Aerospace to provide airborne communications terminal equipment as part of a new high-speed Internet option on Global 5000 and Global 6000 aircraft. The Bombardier option…

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…