Business & GABusiness Aviation Confronts Slowdown The outlook for business aviation today might look different in the cold light of a new morning. Three months ago, despite the drumbeat of bad economic news that preceded it, there was…
MilitaryUnmanned, Persistent ISR The market for unmanned aircraft used in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions could reach $44.5 billion in the next decade General Atomics’ RQ-1 Predator first flew as an Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator…
CommercialTeledyne Acquires Demo Systems LLC Teledyne Technologies Inc., has acquired the assets of Demo Systems LLC, of Moorpark, Calif., for an undisclosed price. The company will be combined with Teledyne Controls. Demo Systems designs and manufactures aircraft…
CommercialEMS Technologies to Buy Formation EMS Technologies signed an agreement to acquire Formation, Inc., of Moorestown, N.J., a provider of airborne wireless network products, for $40 million. The acquisition, EMS said, is designed to bolster its airborne connectivity…
CommercialCAE Wins $32.3 Million on Contracts CAE, Montreal, has been awarded contracts worth $32.3 million to design and manufacture full-flight simulators (FFS) and associated training devices for Saudi Arabian Airlines and the Hua Ou Aviation Training Centre in…
CommercialBoeing Sets New 787 Schedule Boeing announced an updated schedule and more delays for its 787 Dreamliner program, pushing the aircraft's first flight into the second quarter 2009 and first delivery to the first quarter 2010, putting…
Business & GASTC Granted for Rockwell Collins FMS FAA granted certification for Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) Localizer Performance with Vertical guidance (LPV) functionality on the Bombardier Challenger 604 aircraft equipped with Rockwell Collins' upgraded Flight Management System (FMS) and GPS-4000S…
MilitaryDucommun Wins F/A-18 E/F Radar Contract Ducommun Technologies, of Carson, Calif., was awarded a $102 million contract from Raytheon to manufacture and integrate radar system components used on the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet and the radar modernization program for…