CommercialAstronautics BDHI Selected for Special Purpose Boeing 777-300ER [Avionics Magazine 11-30-2016] Boeing has selected Astronautics to supply its three-inch flight instrument AFI 3300 with a Bearing Distance Heading Indicator (BDHI) to provide supplemental tactical air navigation for Boeing’s Special Purpose…
Business & GABell Orders 407GX, 412EPI Avionics Trainers for Academy Bell 412EPI. Photo: Tru Simulation + Training [Avionics Magazine 11-30-2016] Bell Helicopter’s Training Academy is set to receive avionics bench training systems for the Bell 407GX and the Bell 412EPI from Tru…
CommercialPanasonic Partners with Safety Line for More Comprehensive Cockpit Weather Forecasting Panasonic Avionics FlightLink system. Photo: Panasonic Avionics [Avionics Magazine 11-29-2016] Panasonic Avionics and Safety Line have entered into a strategic partnership that aims to enable airlines to access fuel savings through improved…
CommercialWhat We Know: Charter Flight Crash Lands in Colombia, Kills 76 Rescue workers work to rescue survivors and recover bodies in the wreckage of the LAMIA Bolivia flight that crashed near Medellin, Colombia on Nov. 29. Photo: Aircraft Accident Investigation unit of the…
CommercialBombardier Delivers First CS300 to AirBaltic AirBaltic CS300. Photo: AirBaltic [Avionics Magazine 11-29-2016] Bombardier Commercial Aircraft delivered of the first C Series CS300 commercial aircraft to launch operator airBaltic, the flag carrier of Latvia, on Nov. 28. The…
CommercialTextron Releases New Integrated Tester for Aircraft Survivability Systems [Avionics Magazine 11-29-2016] Textron Systems Electronic Systems, an operating unit of Textron, has launched a new Integrated Tester for Aircraft Survivability Systems (ITASS) as part of its Aircraft Survivability Equipment (ASE) product…
CommercialWTO Rules Some Boeing 777X Tax Breaks Illegal Boeing 777X. Photo: Boeing [Avionics Magazine 11-29-2016] The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled that the United States had ignored international trade rules by permitting illegal subsidies to Boeing for the integrated 777X.…
CommercialCan IBM’s Watson Fit in the Cockpit of the Future? [Avionics Magazine 11-29-2016] IBM’s cognitive super computer system technology Watson has already proven itself capable of winning Jeopardy and identifying treatments for cancer, but is it ready to tell pilots what to…