Business & GAA Coming Phenom Want a user-friendly, cutting-edge flight deck with growth potential for, say, synthetic vision? No problem. Want the reliability and dispatch dependency learned from decades of making airliners engineered into the basic design…
MilitaryJSF Update At this writing, all 19 flight- and ground-test aircraft planned under the F-35 System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase were in production or on the flight line, and assembly had begun on…
CommercialDatalink The value of aircraft datalink communications is proving itself on a daily basis, from the traditional aircraft communications addressing and reporting system (ACARS) that transmits specific aircraft parameter data from the plane…
MilitaryBoeing Wins Air Force Contract Boeing was awarded a $14.9 million contract by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to develop technologies to enable airborne electronic attack from long distances. The contract includes systems engineering studies focusing…
CommercialSpirit Airlines Renews ARINC Datalink Pact Spirit Airlines, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., renewed its contract with ARINC, Annapolis, Md., for its GLOBALinkSM data link communications contract for an additional 5 years. Financial terms were not disclosed. Spirit Airlines, an…
MilitaryElbit to Supply Components for T-45 Trainer Boeing selected Elbit Systems as chief supplier of the Virtual Mission Training System (VMTS), which will integrate radar training into the U.S. Navy's T-45 Training System, the airframer said. VMTS simulates via…
CommercialEmrise Corp. Receives IFE Orders Emrise Corp., Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., received $2.2 million in orders for in-flight entertainment equipment from an undisclosed U.S. customer. These orders were received by the company’s Pascall Electronics Ltd. subsidiary, which provides…
CommercialITT Awarded Swedish ATC Contract ITT Corp., White Plains, N.Y., signed a $44.9 million contract with the Swedish Defence Material Administration for an upgrade of its PS-870 coastal/gapfiller radar systems, which automatically detects and tracks both surface…