Business & GANew Products Maintenance Center Duncan Aviation will build a full-service business aviation maintenance facility in Provo, Utah. The facility, which is set to open in August 2010, will provide airframe, engine, interior completions, exterior…
Business & GAThe Hardware Link Quiz: In our increasingly numerical world, which of the following standards has rapidly become the focal point for the silicon in avionics hardware? Mil-Std-1553 AS9100 DO-178B DO-254 If you said 3 —…
Business & GAOpportunity Knocks Amidst the doom and gloom of the global financial meltdown, there are discernible signs of movement, at least within the avionics industry. In the stagnant economy we’ve inherited from Wall Street, companies…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Commercial Boeing Restructures Boeing in December announced a restructuring within its Commercial Airplanes division, combining production and development programs, including the 787 Dreamliner and 747-8, under a new Airplane Programs organization and…
CommercialEditor’s Note: On Wing And Prayer It’s not often that I get to mention my favorite World War II aircraft in the pages of a 21st century technology magazine. So I was pleased when Marion C. Blakey, president…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Commercial ADS-B In Europe Equipping for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) in European airspace will be mandatory starting in 2015 — five years earlier than in the United States — under the European…
ATM ModernizationPeople Arsen Melconian Tecom Industries, Inc., Thousand Oaks, Calif., appointed Arsen Melconian president. Melconian most recently was Tecom’s vice president of engineering and chief technology officer. He joined the company in 2002 as…
ATM ModernizationCalendar February 11-12 National Business Aviation Association, Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE), Hong Kong Business Aviation Center at Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong, China. Visit www.abace.aero. 11-15 Aero India 2009,…