MilitaryRQ-4 UAV Sets Endurance Mark Northrop Grumman’s RQ-4 Global Hawk set an endurance record for a full-scale, operational unmanned aircraft March 22, completing a 33.1-hour flight at altitudes up to 60,000 feet over Edwards Air Force Base,…
CommercialUniversal WAAS-FMS Makes LPV Approach Canadian airline First Air completed LPV approach operations in Canada using Universal Avionics Systems Corp.’s Wide Area Augmentation System – Flight Management System (WAAS-FMS). The Localizer Performance with Vertical (LPV) guidance approach…
MilitaryRockwell Collins Signs Navy UAV Deal Rockwell Collins was awarded a $6.4 million contract modification with the U.S. Navy to exercise an option for the production of 137 RT-1556B AN/ARC-210 Receiver-Transmitter Radios and 81 C-11898A Radio Control Sets…
CommercialQantas to Use Boeing Health Management System Boeing signed an agreement with Australia’s Qantas Airways to use Boeing’s Airplane Health Management (AHM) on its fleet of 747-400s. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Also, Qantas said it…
CommercialJeppesen Software Approved for EFB Application Jeppesen, based in Englewood, Colo., was granted FAA TSO approval for its Airport Moving Map application for Class 2 Electronic Flight Bags (EFB). The application, the company said, uses a database to…
Business & GAEmbry-Riddle Team Studies Helicopter HUMS Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, in conjunction with Tomlinson Aviation, of Ormond Beach, Fla., and Systems & Electronics, of Chicago, completed the first of a series of helicopter research flights demonstrating Health and Usage…
MilitaryNorthrop Grumman Wins Navy Contract Northrop Grumman won a $13.5 million contract modification with the U.S. Navy for cost growth and new requirements related to the development of the Rapid Airborne Mine Clearance System, an airborne mine…
Business & GABoeing Flight Tests SAR on UAV Boeing, in partnership with Salem, Utah-based ImSAR and Insitu Inc., based in Bingen, Wash., flight tested NanoSAR, the world's smallest Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), aboard the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft. During the 1.5-hour…