Military

Northrop Grumman Wins MQ-8B Pact

The U.S. Navy awarded Northrop Grumman a contract for its MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) program. The award is valued at $5 million the first…

Commercial

Goodrich Selected for A350 Video System

Goodrich Corp. will supply its external video system for the Airbus A350 XWB, a contract estimated to generate more than $1 billion in original equipment and aftermarket revenue over the life of the…

Commercial

The Regional View

The volatile oil market and financial meltdown have wreaked havoc on the regional aviation market. Tumbling traffic numbers and rising operating costs have forced U.S. regional carriers to follow the lead of…

Business & GA

Avionics Roadmap

Over the past few months, there has been growing interest in the development of improvements in the National Airspace System (NAS) with great emphasis on the near- and mid-term time frames extending…

Commercial

CAN Bus in Aviation

Controller Area Network (CAN) data bus is a serial communications protocol that supports distributed real-time control with a high level of security. Introduced in the 1980s by Robert Bosch GmbH, the CAN…

Commercial

Air Austral Installs Panasonic IFE System

Panasonic Avionics Corp., of Lake Forest, Calif., installed its eX2 in-flight entertainment (IFE) system on two Boeing 777-300ERs for Air Austral, La Réunion, France. The eX2-equipped aircraft will enter service this month, the company…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Antennas

New in-flight data and communications services on commercial airlines in the United States, Asia and Europe are driving development of smaller antennas with greater functionality for both data and voice. At the…

ATM Modernization

New Products

CompactPCI CPU Board Kontron, of Eching, Germany, introduced the Rugged Conduction-Cooled (RC) Kontron CP3210 CompactPCI CPU board. The board is described as ideal for applications requiring high processing power, including defense, aerospace,…