ATM Modernization

Commercial: Technology Lightens Aviation’s ‘Footprint’

Record temperatures, melting glaciers and a score of increasingly dire scientific reports are sparking worldwide concern about climate change. And governments and industries are feeling the heat. The growing importance of the…

Business & GA

The Art of Imitating Flight

Possibly more than in any other industry, simulation technology has found wide application in aviation, playing a role in avionics development and testing, airframe and engine analysis and every aspect of personnel…

Military

L-3, GE Sign KC-10 Agreement

L-3 Communications Integrated Systems (L-3 IS) subsidiary signed a teaming agreement with GE Aviation for the U.S. Air Force KC-10 Aircraft Extension Program (AEP). Financial terms were not disclosed. The KC-10 AEP…

Commercial

Sturgell Touts SMS at Forum

Acting FAA Administrator Bobby Sturgell urged industry to harmonize standards for safety management systems (SMS), saying the information gathered could “give us the intelligence we need before the problem reaches the headlines.”…

Military

Team Demonstrates CDL on UAV

The team of Rockwell Collins and Cubic Defense Applications, Inc., a defense unit of Cubic Corp., flight tested their new Mini-Common Data Link (CDL) system on a AAI Corp.-Aerosonde Unmanned Aerial System…

Military

Northrop Grumman Flight Tests B-2 Antenna

Northrop Grumman completed the installation, integration and initial flight testing of the first developmental test units (DTU) of the new radar antenna developed for the B-2 stealth bomber's radar modernization program (RMP).…

Military

InterSense, L-3 Link Ink Deal

InterSense, Bedford, Mass., finalized a deal with L-3 Link Simulation and Training to integrate its Advanced Helmet Mounted Display system with InterSense’s IS-900 precision motion tracking system into the U.S. Army’s Flight…

Business & GA

Avionica Buys Patent

Avionica, Miami, completed the purchase of a U.S. Patent involving vehicle data collection, wireless transmission and preventative maintenance. "As aircraft become increasingly data-centric, customers are demanding automation to drive proactive maintenance and…