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Global Eagle Upgrades WestJet IFE

GEE to deliver IFE to WestJet personal devices. Photo: WestJet [Avionics Today 12-15-2014] Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) has announced it will manage Canada’s low-cost carrier WestJet’s in-flight content services. This comes as…

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Northrop Grumman Delivers First Fire Radar Upgrade to F-16

APG-83 SABR Radar system. Photo: Northrop Grumman [Avionics Today 12-15-2014] Northrop Grumman has delivered its first Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) to Lockheed Martin. The APG-83…

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Aircelle to Supply Boeing 777X Titanium Exhaust Systems

[Avionics Today 12-15-2014] Aircelle, a branch of the Safran group, will produce titanium exhaust systems for the new Boeing 777X commercial jetliner. This is the nacelle manufacturer’s first major supplier win with…

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ThalesRaytheonSystems Radar to Boost French Air Defense

Operators using the ThalesRaytheonSystems Grand Master 400 radar. Photo: ThalesRaytheonSystems [Avionics Today 12-12-2014] The French defense procurement agency, Direction Générale de l'Armement (DGA), has awarded a contract to ThalesRaytheonSystems to supply the…