Commercial

Explaining ARINC 818

The ARINC 818 "Avionics Digital Video Bus" standard was released in January 2007. Even before its official release, major programs by both Airbus (A400M military transport) and Boeing (787 Dreamliner) adopted the…

Military

Teeth of the Growler

Building airborne electronic attack (AEA) capability into the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter/attack aircraft posed packaging and integration challenges for prime contractor Boeing and AEA subsystem integrator Northrop Grumman. Compared to…

ATM Modernization

Europe’s Green Pursuit

A Scandinavian Airline System (SAS) Boeing 737 descends noiselessly to the threshold of Arlanda Airport at Stockholm, Sweden, having just completed a descent with engines at idle or nearly so. This is…

ATM Modernization

People

Universal Appointments Universal Avionics, Tucson, Ariz., made several management moves, including the appointment of a chief operating officer (COO). Paul DeHerrera (right), who most recently was vice president of marketing and product…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

  First-Quarter Report: Osprey Delivers The Goods in Iraq The first MV-22 Osprey tiltrotors assigned for operational duty in Iraq arrived in country last October. The following report, based on the first…

Military

Raytheon Awarded Navy Pact

Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems won a $22 million order from the U.S. Navy to provide various line items of F/A-18 advanced targeting forward looking infra red (ATFLIR) system components. Work will…

Commercial

Goodrich to Acquire TEAC Aerospace

Goodrich Corp., Charlotte, N.C., will pay an undisclosed sum to buy TEAC Aerospace Holdings, the companies said Friday. TEAC, based in Monterey Park, Calif., manufactures proprietary airborne mission data, video recording and…

Commercial

CAE Signs $53 Million in Contracts

CAE, based in Montreal, signed contracts to design and manufacture four full-flight simulators (FFS) and associated training devices with Lufthansa Flight Training and Xiamen Airlines. The total value of the contracts is…