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…
Business & GAProduct Focus: Switches Many of the small bits and pieces in the avionics world don’t change much from year to year. That’s true of a lot of technologies. But every decade or so comes a…
Business & GANew Products Sales Representation AD Aerospace, of Cheshire, U.K., appointed Millennium Aviation Consulting (MAC) as its representatives for Latin America. MAC will promote AD Aerospace’s FlightVu range of aerospace video safety and security systems…
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…
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…