Business & GAProduct Focus: Antennas New antenna and broadband technologies are bringing new capabilities and new scope to in-flight communications and entertainment systems. Business travel used to mean putting some tasks on hold while in flight. Such…
Business & GANew Products Umbilical Contract W. L. Gore & Associates won a contract to provide its Umbilical Assemblies for the A-10 Precision Engagement Kit by Lockheed Martin. This is the second contract awarded to Gore…
Business & GAPerspectives: Security and the Separation Kernel Historically, avionics systems have largely been designed to fit a single application need, such as an attitude indicator or central warning system. The software-intense designs of today’s avionics systems are quite a…
CommercialeX2 Flies Aboard A380 Panasonic Avionics Corp., Lake Forest, Calif., said it finished a successful week of in-flight operability testing for its eX2 in-flight entertainment (IFE) system aboard the Airbus A380 aircraft. In a series of…
MilitaryCMC to Equip EFB on Austrian’s C-130s CMC Electronics has been selected by the Austrian Air Force to equip the flight decks of three C-130 aircraft with its PilotView Electronic Flight Bag (EFB). Financial terms of the deal were…
CommercialEmpire Aero Center to Install Virgin America’s IFE Virgin America, a new San Francisco-based start-up airline, selected Empire Aero Center of Rome, N.Y., to install Panasonic Avionics' in-flight entertainment systems on the airline's Airbus A320 family aircraft. Virgin America has…
CommercialAstro-Med Wins Printer Contract Astro-Med, West Warwick, R.I., received a multi-year, $6 million to furnish cockpit printers for an unnamed aircraft manufacturer. The company said the contractor and the aircraft manufacturer have requested anonymity until later…
CommercialTACA to Use Sagem for FOQA Tasks Sagem Avionics, Grand Prairie, Texas, said El Salvador-based airline TACA Airlines will use its Analysis Ground Station (AGS) to enhance its flight operations quality assurance (FOQA) program and start a maintenance operation…