Military Lockheed Martin Wins U.S. Army Contract Lockheed Martin was awarded a $16.9 million contract to modernize the final portion of the U.S. Army's Apache helicopter Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight (M-TADS) system. Under the three-year firm, fixed-price contract,…
Commercial Wizz Air Selects Teledyne's FDIMU Wizz Air, a Central and Eastern European carrier, selected Teledyne Controls, of El Segundo, Calif., to supply its Flight Data Interface Management Unit (FDIMU) for installation on its fleet of A320s. The carrier already…
Commercial China Southern Airlines Selects Panasonic IFE Panasonic Avionics Corp., of Lake Forest, Calif., signed an agreement with China Southern Airlines to supply its eX2 in-flight entertainment system on five A380-800s. First deliveries are slated to begin in 2009,…
Commercial Report: Europe Faces Congested Future Half of the flights at highly congested airports in Europe will risk delays or cancellations by 2030, according to a Eurocontrol report issued Tuesday. The study, Challenges of Growth, finds demand for…
Business & GA Cutter Aviation Wins AHRS STC Cutter Aviation Technical Services, of Phoenix, was awarded a FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) for the modification and replacement of existing Rockwell Collins dual Attitude Heading Reference System (AHRS) AHS-85E units with…
Commercial navAero Unveils New EFB CPU navAero added a new central processing unit (CPU) to its t-Bag C22 electronic flight bag (EFB). The company said the Intel Core 2 Duo 1.5 GHZ processor adds expanded features to the EFB,…
Commercial Editor’s Note: Working Together In a previous column, I remarked on some of the different aircraft I’ve been fortunate enough to fly aboard as an aviation journalist. Another perk of this job is the opportunity to…
ATM Modernization Industry Scan Navigation System Supplier Aims To Make WAAS More Available, Affordable The new owners of FreeFlight Systems, based in Waco, Texas, are dedicated to the proposition that satellite navigation from a cost perspective…