Commercial

The Dreamliner, in Control

Using synergy developed with the avionics side of its parent company, Rockwell Collins’ Electromechanical Systems Division (EMS) is expecting to nearly double its business in the next five years, thanks in part…

Business & GA

Q&A: NLR: The Leading Edge of European Research

Jacco M. Hoekstra is head of the air transport division of the Nationaal Lucht-en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium (NLR), the National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands. In this capacity, he oversees 140 researchers engaged in…

Commercial

Product Focus: Flight Data Recorders

Interconnectivity of avionics, including flight data recorders (FDR), is of prime importance to aircraft operators because it offers rapid data transfer rates and significant time savings. Thanks to increased use of Ethernet…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Development Kit Acqiris, Monroe, N.Y., released its firmware development kit (FDK), which simplifies application development on the embedded field programmable gate array (FPGA) of its SC240/210 streamer analyzers and AC240/210 analyzers. 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…