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…

Commercial

Atlas Air to Use AMT's Flightman EFB Software

Atlas Air, a cargo airline based in Purchase, N.Y., signed a contract with Aircraft Management Technologies (AMT) to use AMT's Flightman software for Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) applications. Atlas Air, a participant in FAA's Capstone…

Commercial

Era MSS ADS-B System Operational in Dublin

Era a.s., of Fairfax, Va., said its MSS ADS-B and multilateration surveillance systems for the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) has been successfully installed at the Dublin Airport and is now in full operational use. The system uses…

Commercial

787 Dreamliner Makes First Flight

Boeing's long-awaited 787 Dreamliner took to the skies for the first time on Tuesday, more than two years behind its original schedule. More than 12,000 Boeing employees and spectators witnessed the three-hour first…

Commercial

Rockwell Collins HGS Capable of Cat I Landing

The Head-Up Guidance System (HGS) from Rockwell Collins will be capable of conducting reduced Category I (Cat I) landing minima as authorized by FAA's Flight Technology and Procedures Division, AFS-400, Washington, DC. The CAT…