Business & GA

Northrop Grumman AHRS FAA, EASA Certified

Northrop Grumman said its LCR-100 Attitude Heading Reference System (AHRS), developed by its Northrop Grumman LITEF GmbH subsidiary, achieved certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and FAA. Several business aircraft,…

Commercial

Norwegian Air Shuttle Selects Rockwell Collins

Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA selected Rockwell Collins to provide avionics for 42 Boeing 737NG aircraft with an option for an additional 42 aircraft. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2009. The avionics…

Commercial

Air Arabia Selects Rockwell Collins Avionics

Rockwell Collins was selected by Air Arabia to provide a package of communication, navigation and surveillance avionics for 59 new Airbus A320s. Deliveries of these aircraft are scheduled to begin in 2009.…

Military

Beating Ballistic Threats

Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG) and small arms fire remain deadly, plentiful threats to helicopters forced to fly close to concealed enemies. Unlike Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) countered by missile warning receivers,…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Electronic Standby Instrument L-3 Avionics Systems, Grand Rapids, Mich., introduced the Trilogy ESI-1000 Electronic Standby Instrument, a solid-state integrated standby system created for Part 23 aircraft. L-3 said the system is designed…

Commercial

Deterministic Ethernet for Avionics

The AEEC has been documenting methods for transferring digital information between avionics boxes since the 1960s. However, it wasn’t until the implementation of ARINC 429 as a reliable, high-integrity digital databus that…

Commercial

Product Focus: RTOS

At 35,000 feet, the market for real-time operating systems (RTOS) is embracing the concept of virtualization as a way to wring more functionality out of avionics systems. In that respect, aviation is…