Embedded AvionicsRockwell Collins Scores NASA Contract to Develop Sonic Boom Cockpit Display NASA’s initial depiction of sonic boom footprint integrated with real-time, local-area moving map. Rockwell Collins will develop conceptual cockpit display using the data to investigate how to best show this to pilots.…
CommercialTUI Group Finalize Order for Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. Photo: Boeing [Avionics Today 05-14-2015] Boeing and TUI Group have finalized an order for one 787-9 Dreamliner with an option for another. The order is valued at $257 million…
CommercialCommercial UAS Modernization Act Seeks Interim Operating Rules [Avionics Today 05-14-2015] The Commercial UAS Modernization Act, introduced by Senators Corey Booker, D-N.J., and John Hoeven, R-N.D., aims to establish an interim rule governing small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) operations in…
CommercialTAM’s First A350 XWB One Step Closer to Delivery TAM Airlines’ first A350 XWB in final assembly. Photo: Airbus [Avionics Today 05-14-2015] Airbus has announced the first A350-900 for TAM Airlines is progressing well in the Final Assembly Line (FAL) in…
Embedded AvionicsLevaero Aviation Receives FAA STC for Pilatus PC-12 High Definition EVS PC-12 cockpit. Photo: Pilatus Aircraft. Avionics Today 05-14-2015] The FAA has granted a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) to Levaero Aviation (formerly Pilatus Centre Canada), in association with Northeast Engineering & Development, for…
Business & GABombardier to Cut 1,750 Employees, Reduces Global 5000 and 6000 Production Bombardier’s Global 5000 aircraft. Photo: Bombardier Business Aircraft [Avionics Today 05-14-2015] Bombardier Business Aircraft has announced it will reduce its production rate for Global 5000 and Global 6000 aircraft. The company attributed…
ATM ModernizationEurocontrol, GSA Start Working to Better Implement SatNav in ATM Eurocontrol’s Director General Frank Brenner met with GSA Executive Director Carlo des Dorides in Prague. Photo: Eurocontrol [Avionics Today 05-13-2015] Following the signature of a framework partnership agreement on April 8, on…
Business & GABoeing Looks to Turn Backlog into Growth [Avionics Today 05-13-2015] At the 2015 Boeing Investor’s Conference on Tuesday, the company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jim McNerney provided top line expectations regarding whether the aerospace market would begin to…