Business & GAAIA Hires Former Boeing Commercial Airplanes Exec Aerospace Industries Assn. (AIA) has hired former Boeing Commercial Airplanes executive David Silver, the association said. He joins the organization as its VP of Civil Aviation. “We are delighted to welcome David…
Embedded AvionicsFAA to Study Enhanced Vision for Helicopter Operations Astronics Corp. subsidiary Astronics Max-Viz is teaming up with the FAA to research operational concepts for the use of enhanced vision systems in helicopters, Astronics said. The collaboration employs Astronics’ Max-Viz 1500…
MilitaryNavair Tests Wide-Area Motion Imagery Sensor Onboard Drone A wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) sensor has successfully completed testing onboard a Navmar Applied Sciences Corp. TigerShark unmanned aircraft system (UAS), Logos Technologies said. The test of the company’s Redkite sensor was…
MilitaryRockwell Collins to Support KC-10 Fleet Repair L-3 Technologies recently awarded Rockwell Collins a repair chain management contract to support the repair of over 500 parts for the U.S. Air Force on 59 KC-10 aircraft. Rockwell Collins will…
Business & GAAEA Has $5K to Give Aircraft Owners for ADS-B Upgrades Aircraft Electronics Assn. (AEA) plans to hand out monetary awards to five aircraft owners, chosen at random. The awards, AEA said, are to go toward equipping aircraft with ADS-B technology. They are…
MilitaryGPS-Based Precision Landing Can Help US Navy Drones, Fighters The U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has been designed to land itself, using Raytheon’s Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS), Raytheon said. The Navy hopes to use the MQ-25…
Embedded AvionicsEurocontrol, GNSS Working Group See MOPS Progress A working group met at Eurocontrol headquarters at the end of June to discuss the development of worldwide standards for the next generation of global satellite navigation system (GNSS) receivers, Eurcontrol said.…
CommercialIATA, WMO to Expand Aircraft Weather Observation Program The International Air Transport Assn. (IATA) has agreed to a new arrangement that will help expand a global aviation weather monitoring system that currently produces 700,000 weather observations per day. Under a new…