Business & GA

Mercury Inks Deal with BAE Systems Australia

Mercury Computer Systems, Chelmsford, Mass., was awarded a contract by BAE Systems Australia to provide a Synthetic Vision display for the development of a rotorcraft brownout landing system. Financial terms of the…

Commercial

UPS Cancels A380 Order

Following several production delays, parcel giant UPS cancelled its order for 10 freighter versions of the Airbus A380. The move leaves Airbus with no firm orders for the freighter version of the…

Business & GA

Barco to Supply Units to S-76D

Avionics display company Barco signed an agreement with Thales to supply advanced Control Display and Management Systems (CDMS) for use in its new TopDeck avionics suite. Belgium-based Barco said Thales’ TopDeck unit…

Business & GA

New Products

Digital Signal Processor Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, Leesburg, Va., unveiled conduction-cooled, rugged versions of its CHAMP-FX digital signal processor (DSP) 6U VME64x and VITA-41 engines. Also, Curtiss-Wright qualified the high performance IP…

ATM Modernization

Safety: Inertial System Drift

The most expensive failure of a twin Inertial Reference System (IRS) occurred on the first Ariane V rocket in 1996. Thirty-seven seconds after liftoff, a software fault caused an extreme attitude change,…

ATM Modernization

Perspectives: eLORAN’s Shortcomings

While I share the concern about possible backups to automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) in the event of GPS local or larger outages, I don’t believe the entire story about Enhanced Loran

Business & GA

IPFD for Helicopters

Honeywell announced the development of an integrated primary flight display (IPFD) for helicopters aimed at improving situational awareness and reducing pilot workload. The synthetic vision technology development process is expected to last…