Business & GAEmiraes-CAE Training Certified Emirates-CAE Flight Training (ECFT) received international accreditation for its Gulfstream 550/450 business jet training programs. Emirates-CAE, which is located near the Dubai International Airport and operated jointly between the Canadian simulator company…
MilitaryExtended 1553 Milestone Edgewater Computer Systems Inc. (ECSI) said it completed a flight test of its Extended 1553 data bus technology in a U.S. Air Force F-16. The Ottawa, Canada-based company said the primary purpose…
Business & GAADS-B for GA Garmin International is adding automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) capabilities to its general aviation transponders. Garmin said it is enabling its GTX 330 and GTX 33 transponders with 1090 MHz Extended Squitter (ES)…
Business & GACAE, Mooney Airplane Ink Contract Canadian simulator company CAE signed a contract with first time customer, Mooney Airplane Company (MAC), maker of a single-engine, piston-powered aircraft. Financial terms were not disclosed. Under the contract, CAE will develop…
Business & GAWSI, Avidyne Team Up WSI Corp., Andover, Mass., is teaming up with Avidyne, Lincoln, Mass., to put a datalink weather receiver in the cockpit that is capable of receiving Sirius Satellite Radio programming. Avidyne is developing…
MilitaryL-3 Titan Wins EA6B Prowler Pact L-3 Titan Corp., Marlton, N.J., won a $10.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy for engineering, technical and programmatic services for the Airborne Electronic Attack/EA6B Prowler Integrated Product Team. Work will be…
Business & GAARINC 429 Celebrates 30 Years ARINC 429, the databus backbone for commercial aircraft, is celebrated its 30th anniversary Saturday. And despite drastic changes in the avionics industry in those three decades, this standard is still "alive and…
CommercialSandia Studies Sensors Researchers at the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., say networks of sensors mounted on commercial aircraft might one day continually check for the formation of structural defects, and could reduce or…