Commercial‘You’ll See Driverless Cars’ Before UAVs in US [Avionics Today March 13, 2014] While the U.S. lags behind in the global commercial drone boom, experts on a panel at the Satellite 2014 conference in Washington, D.C. were more than ever…
Business & GA‘It’s Not Free?’: Making Money on In-flight Connectivity Though Gogo and Row44 in-flight connectivity investments have fallen short of financial returns expectations — since passengers have been unwilling to pay for connectivity — Ku- and Ka-band deployment marches on. Meanwhile,…
Business & GAEclipse Delivers First 550 [Avionics Today March 12, 2014] Eclipse Aerospace announced the first customer delivery of its new 550 twin-engine jet. Production of the 550 began at the Eclipse facility in Albuquerque in June 2012,…
ATM ModernizationNextGen GA Fund Adds Banking Partners [Avionics Today March 12, 2014] The NextGen GA Fund has formed two new partnership agreements with Pilot Bank and Madison Capital, LLC to help General Aviation aircraft owners afford necessary NextGen avionics upgrades. …
Business & GAJeppesen Expands FliteDeck VFR Coverage [Avionics Today March 11, 2014] Jeppesen is adding new European coverage areas for its Mobile FliteDeck aviation iPad application, according to a new announcement from the Boeing Digital Aviation subsidiary. Software…
Embedded AvionicsL-3 Acquires Data Tactics Corp. [Avionics Today March 11, 2014] L-3 has acquired Data Tactics Corp., in a move to expand its national security solutions business. With the acquisition the company has been renamed L-3 Data…
ATM ModernizationGagan Brings Avionics Upgrades to India Operators in India will need to upgrade their aircraft's avionics systems this year to match the country's overhaul of its Air Traffic Control (ATC) system, a transportation official said during an Associated…
Business & GAInteprod to Design SRS Display Aviation Safety Resources (ASR) has a new agreement with Inteprod to design the cockpit display for its Smart Recovery System (SRS-1), which the two companies will unveil at the Aircraft Electronics Association…