Business & GAThrane & Thrane Broadband System OKed Thrane & Thrane, of Denmark, received Inmarsat Type Approval for its Aero-SB Lite cabin connectivity system. The approval will enable the system to utilize the Inmarsat SwiftBroadband service. Aero-SB Lite system provides…
MilitaryRaytheon Wins Navy Contract Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems was awarded a $17.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy for repair overhaul of various weapons replaceable assemblies used on the Airborne Low Frequency Sonar utilized on the MH-60R…
MilitaryBoeing Completes NATO AWACS Upgrade A team led by Boeing completed a major mission-system upgrade for the NATO Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) fleet under the $1.32 billion Mid-Term Modernisation Program. The upgrades include systems to…
MilitaryLockheed 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,…
MilitaryMQ-8B Fire Scout Demonstrates Radar, EO/IR Northrop Grumman's MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Unmanned Aircraft System (VUAS) demonstrated continuous combined payload coverage, successfully downlinking simultaneous digital video from both a Telephonics RDR-1700B multi-mode maritime radar and a FLIR Systems'…
CommercialWizz 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…
CommercialChina 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,…
CommercialReport: 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…