MilitaryNavy’s Advanced Hawkeye Training System Gets Rockwell Collins Upgrade The E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Integrated Training System [Avionics Today 12-02-2014] Rockwell Collins has been selected by the United States Navy to provide an upgrade to the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Integrated Training System…
CommercialBoeing Continues to Provide Missile Guidance for US Air Force Boeing corporate offices. Photo: Boeing [Avionics Today 12-02-2014] Boeing will continue to repair and supply the guidance systems of the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) to the United States Air Force…
Business & GASwelling Falcon Fleet Prompts New Dassault MRO Facility DFS Merignac facility rendering. Photo: Dassault [Avionics Today 12-02-2014] To service a growing fleet, Dassault Falcon Service has announced plans to build a heavy Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility at Bordeaux-Mérignac…
Business & GANew TRU Simulation + Training Center to Train Textron Operators [Avionics Magazine 12-02-2014] Textron’s TRU Simulation + Training plans to establish a new maintenance training facility for current model Cessna and Beechcraft aircraft to be located on the Textron Aviation Mid-Continent campus…
CommercialSpirit, JetBlue Ready to Move A320 Maintenance to Puerto Rico [Avionics Today 12-02-2014] Lufthansa Technik (LHT), the aircraft maintenance wing of German airline Lufthansa, is strengthening its presence in the Americas with a new overhaul facility, Lufthansa Technik Puerto Rico. The company…
Editor's NoteTCPDLC: Transitioning to Controller Pilot Data Link Communications The global air transportation industry is in the process of slowly transitioning to Controller to Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) to help alleviate the increasingly congested voice communications between pilots and controllers…
Editor's NoteAvionics Big Data: Impacting All Segments of the Aviation Industry Aircraft data is the lifeblood of the aviation industry. Data is everywhere you look, from flight testing, to in-flight data recording, enemy radar sensor data acquisition and more. However, of all flight…
Editor's NoteNew Technologies: Hike in Air Traffic Present Challenges to MRO Market More than 36,000 new aircraft will be delivered worldwide in the next two decades, according to the Boeing 2014 Long-Term Market Forecast. That demand is spurred by both the need…