Commercial

Cobham Inks 10-Year, $900 Million Qantas Contract

QantasLink aircraft. Photo: Wikimedia [Avionics Today 07-05-2016] QantasLink has awarded Cobham a 10-year, $900 million (Australian $1.2 billion) contract to continue provision of airline services to QantasLink, supporting the airline’s fleet of…

Commercial

Boeing Opens New Autonomous Systems Lab 

[Avionics Magazine 07-01-2016]  Boeing has opened a new research laboratory to test hardware and software that will make a new generation of autonomous air, sea and land vehicles work together more effectively…

Commercial

Tibet Receives First A330 for High Altitude Airport Ops

[Avionics Magazine 07-01-2016] Tibet Airlines has received its first widebody aircraft, an A330-200 with increased 242-ton maximum take-off-weight (MTOW), following a handover in Toulouse, France. The increased MTOW, the first A330-200 in…

Commercial

Major Win for Inmarsat Swiftbroadband Safety With A320, A330

[Avionics Magazine 06-30-2016] Inmarsat has announced a major new win for its Swiftbroadband-Safety (SB-S) service. Airbus has selected SwiftBroadband-Safety as a cockpit communications technology for its A320 and A330 aircraft families.   …

ATM Modernization

ACSS, Duncan Aviation Launch NXT-700 ADS-B Transponder

[Avionics Magazine 06-30-2016] Under a new partnership with Duncan Aviation, L-3/Thales subsidiary ACSS is introducing the new NXT-700 transponder for the business aviation market. According to Duncan Aviation, the NXT-700 is a…