Commercial

In-Trail, On-Time

Over the years, a large number of concepts to increase airspace and airport capacity and to smooth traffic flows have been proposed, but few of them have reached operational application. Some die…

Military

Reducing Risk on Joint Strike Fighter

The avionics suite of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will probably be the most extensively tested of any aviation electronics, with much of the work performed before systems fly on the…

Business & GA

LearJet Display Retrofit Certified

Universal Avionics Systems Corp., Tucson, Ariz., received an FAA supplemental type certification for its EFI-890R Navigation Display retrofit of a Learjet Model 25D by Stevens Aviation. The LR25 has also been equipped…

Military

UAV Adapts To Battle Damage

Athena Technologies, Warrenton, Va., completed a successful flight demonstration of damage tolerant flight control and autonomous landing capabilities on a subscale F/A-18 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency…

Commercial

RNP Approach in Tibet

A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-700 completed a flight into Linzhi airport in the mountainous region of Tibet using a Required Navigation Performance (RNP) approach, Boeing said this week. This flight demonstrates…

ATM Modernization

General Dynamics to Provide Radios to FAA

The FAA ordered $10 million of additional CM-300 Ultra-high Frequency (UHF) radios and equipment from General Dynamics C4 Systems to upgrade communication capabilities between air traffic controllers and military aircraft. The FAA…

Commercial

CAE Sells Five Full-Flight Simulators

Canadian flight simulator company CAE said it signed contracts for the sale of five full-flight simulators (FFS), valued at nearly $65 million. The contracts bring the total FFS sales CAE has announced…

ATM Modernization

Raytheon Completes UAE ATC Milestone

Raytheon said it completed the critical design review milestone on the General Civil Aviation Authority of United Arab Emirates AutoTrac III contract, which aims to replace UAE’s aging enroute system with a…