Military

AeroVironment Wins Army, Marine Corps Pact

AeroVironment (AV), a provider of unmanned aircraft systems, received a $23.9 million fixed-price order under an existing contract to provide digital Raven systems and kits to upgrade existing analog Raven systems currently…

Commercial

Air Asia X to Install Teledyne's WQAR

Teledyne Controls, of El Segundo, Calif., signed a contract with AirAsia X, the long haul low-cost airline affiliate of AirAsia, to provide its Wireless GroundLink Quick Access Recorder (WQAR) for 25 new Airbus…

Editor's Note

Rockwell Collins Selected for MC-21 Family

Rockwell Collins has been selected to provide avionics and pilot controls for the new MC-21 family of single-aisle aircraft being developed by Russian-based Irkut Corp., part of United Aircraft Corporation. The first…

Military

Boeing's B-1 Completes First Flight Test

Boeing said Friday it has successfully completed the first phase of the flight test for a B-1 bomber upgraded with new digital avionics. The B-1 Fully Integrated Data Link (FIDL) flight test plan…

Military

Curtiss-Wright Acquires Skyquest Systems

Curtiss-Wright Controls, based in Charlotte, N.C., will pay about $16 million to acquire Skyquest Systems Ltd., a Basildon, U.K.-based supplier of aircraft video displays, recorders and video/radar converters for surveillance aircraft. The business will become part…

Military

Boeing Completes Multimodal Exercise

Boeing completed a demonstration for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) that integrated air and ground unmanned systems to perform psychological operations (PSYOP) wartime missions for combatant commands, the airframer said…

Military

MQ-8B Conducts Sensors Demonstration

Northrop Grumman said it completed maritime sensor demonstrations using its MQ-8B Fire Scout tactical Vertical Unmanned Aircraft System (VUAS). Fire Scout was equipped with the radar from Telephonics, of Farmingdale, N.Y., and…

Commercial

AIA Sees Slower Growth in 2010

The aerospace industry will see slower sales growth next year as the overall economy takes its toll, according to the annual forecast from the Aerospace Industry Association (AIA). At the association's annual…