With the emergence of air vehicles like Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk, General Atomics' Predator and the NASA/AeroVironment Pathfinder, the reality of unmanned aircraft is clear. Today, unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) or, to…
While the maintenance operations of most U.S. airlines are cherry picking repair and overhaul specialties and outsourcing all other work, American Airlines Maintenance and Engineering (M&E) is increasing its range of aircraft…
November 13-17 Wire Installation, Familiarization and Inspection Seminar, hosted at Boeing's facility in Long Beach, Calif. Phone 562-593-1971 or visit www.boeing.com/nosearch/seminars-services/index.html. 14-16 Aerospace Testing Expo North America, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, Calif.…
Heinen, Flourens Airbus has appointed Mario Heinen as senior vice president and head of the A380 program. He formerly led the A320 single aisle program. Alain Flourens, who was previously executive vice…
DARPA, U.S. Air Force Advance Automated Refueling The goal of autonomous air-to-air refueling, a critical enabler for long-range, persistent unmanned strike and surveillance capability, moved closer to reality with the first autonomous…
Area navigation, or RNAV, is one of the cornerstones of the future air traffic system as envisaged by both the FAA and the Joint Program Development Office's Next Generation Air Transportation System…
Cabin Communications Newport News, Va.-based International Communications Group (ICG) has introduced its AeroCom 1100, a cabin telecommunications unit that supplies a package of automated telephone, fax and data services for small and…
The need for a backup to GPS as a source of position, navigation and timing (PNT) information has been obvious for years. GPS is key to critical infrastructures and is deeply embedded…