Commercial

Mexico City Airport Embraces ‘Green’ Energy

Diagram of the VYCON flywheel system. Photo: VYCON [Avionics Today 08-20-2014] VYCON, designer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly energy storage flywheel systems, announced the purchase of three of VYCON’s kinetic energy storage…

ATM Modernization

Wind River Virtualizes RTOS

[Avionics Today 08-19-14] California-based embedded-systems software company Wind River is upping the ante on their VxWorks Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) by introducing a virtualization profile for its next-generation version. The virtualization profile…

Embedded Avionics

Pilatus Provides a Better View with New EVS

Pilatus PC-12 EVS Sensor. Photo: Pilatus [Avionics Today 08-19-2014] Pilatus Centre Canada (PCC) has been granted a Transport Canada Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the recently developed Pilatus PC-12 Enhanced Vision Systems…

Commercial

Manned and Unmanned Systems: Expanding Integration

[Avionics Today 08-19-2014] Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy made history this weekend by operating manned and unmanned carrier aircraft in the same controlled landing pattern at the same time.

Business & GA

Cirrus Expands Sales to India

dam Hahn, director of sales for Cirrus Aircraft; and Roohi Bali, sales manager for Cirrus India, signing contract in Duluth, Minn. Photo: Cirrus Aircraft [Avionics Today 08-19-2014] Cirrus Aircraft, an all-composite personal…

Business & GA

Into the Eye of the Storm: IntuVue RDR-4000 3-D Radar

[Avionics Today 08-19-2014] The oldest model of the Convair 580 still in operation is, ironically, the test aircraft for Honeywell’s groundbreaking new RDR-4000 IntuVue 3-D Radar technology. From the cockpit of the…

Commercial

Surf Air Orders $312 Million in Pilatus Planes

A Surf Air Pilatus Plane. Photo: Surf Air [Avionics Today 08-18-2014] Surf Air, an “all-you-can-fly” membership airline based in California, has ordered 65 new Pilatus aircraft. The orders — 15 firm orders…