CommercialEditor’s Note: 13 Unlucky Hours Having logged a fair number of air miles for business and pleasure over the past four decades, I’ve by and large managed to avoid the kinds of airport fiascoes you see on…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Flight-Control Technology Drives UAV Airspace Integration A leading developer of navigation and flight-control systems for UAVs sees technology driving the integration of manned and unmanned aircraft in civilian airspace ever closer. Within…
ATM ModernizationPeople Viggiano, Lo Brutto Sensis Corp., Syracuse, N.Y., promoted Marc Viggiano, who was senior vice president, to the newly created position of chief strategy officer, and Antonio Lo Brutto to head its Air…
MilitaryMcDonnell Douglas Wins Navy Pact Boeing subsidiary McDonnell Douglas signed a $145 million contract modification with the U.S. Navy for continued system configuration set support for the F/A-18 A/B/C/D/E/F and EA-18G weapons systems for the Navy and…
CommercialFinnair to Use ARINC Message System Finnish airline Finnair is using ARINC’s seatback SMS/e-mail messaging service on its newest Airbus A340 aircraft used on Asian routes. Financial terms were not disclosed. The service is operational on Finnair’s two…
CommercialRockwell Collins, Panasonic Team Up Panasonic Avionics Corp., Lake Forest, Calif., formed a business relationship with Rockwell Collins to provide enhanced passenger control while viewing route maps and point-of-interest media libraries. The partnership will combine Rockwell Collins’s…
CommercialAmerican Airlines Selects Inflight Canada American Airlines will use an in-flight entertainment (IFE) and in-seat power systems by Inflight Canada for its Boeing 767-300 refurbishment project currently under way. Financial terms were not disclosed. Inflight Canada, based…
Business & GALynuxWorks, TTTech Cooperate LynuxWorks is working with Austria-based TTTech Computertechnik, a supplier of time-triggered technologies, to combine certain development tasks between their products to “assist developers in the migration of prototype safety-critical avionics applications to…