Commercial

FAA Approves CompassData for Aviation Mapping

[Avionics Today April 14, 2014] The FAA has issued DO-200A certification to CompassData for the collection and processing of survey and ground control data used for the creation of its Airport Mapping Database…

Commercial

Lufthansa Technik Expands to Puerto Rico

[Avionics Today April 11, 2014] Germany's Lufthansa Technik has signed an agreement to build a new aviation Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility at Rafael Hernández International Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.  Lufthansa…

Commercial

Wind River Powers F-35 Communications in Flight Test

[Avionics Today April 11, 2014] Avionics Magazine recently caught up with Wind River to discuss how its VxWorks Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) Platform provided a separation kernel-based security foundation for a…

Commercial

Navy's X-47B Completes First Night Flight

[Avionics Today April 11, 2014] The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command's (NAVAIR) X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) completed its first night flight over Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. The Navy completed…

Business & GA

Making Autopilot Systems Safer

[Avionics Today April 10, 2014] Would you believe that just 30 lines of computer code might have saved Air France flight 447 from crashing into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009? Carlos Varela, an…

Commercial

Japan Airlines to Trial Gogo's 2Ku

[Avionics Today April 10, 2014] Japan Airlines is expected to be among the first airlines to try out a new Ground to Orbit (GTO) in-flight connectivity service, 2Ku, which Gogo says will…

Commercial

Lockheed Martin, Navy Make Autonomous Aerial Strides 

[Avionics Today April 10, 2014] Officials from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) announced two helicopter flight tests with unmanned flight capability that are a major step forward in the military's Autonomous Aerial…