Business & GA Qatar Airways, Jeppesen Sign Electronic Flight Bag Agreement Qatar Airways has renewed its five-year service agreement with Jeppesen to add electronic flight bag (EFB) services to its commercial air operations. Under the new agreement, the Middle Eastern carrier will…
Embedded Avionics Cassidian 'SmartRadar' Completes LearJet Flight Testing Cassidian's "SmartRadar" system recently completed flight test from the German air base in Hohn aboard a Learjet 35. (Cassidian's SmartRadar – shown here in its demonstrator pod configuration. Photo, courtesy…
Commercial Virgin Atlantic Adds New Airborne Cargo Tracking Device Virgin Atlantic Cargo will begin allowing customers to track their air freight shipments in real time, after approving the Sentry FlightSafe tracking device for its aircraft. Sentry FlightSafe, developed by…
Embedded Avionics Navy Tests New Target Sharing System on EA-18G The U.S. Navy recently completed flight tests of its new data network on a Boeing EA-18G Growler. The network features sensor system upgrades that will allow aircrews to share targeting data…
Commercial AUVSI 2013 Opens Next Week in Washington The Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International will host Unmanned Systems 2013, its 40th annual gathering of the unmanned systems industry, in Washington D.C. next week, and Avionics Magazine has a preview of…
Business & GA Gogo Reports Bigger Net Loss in Quarterly Earnings In-flight connectivity provider Gogo on Wednesday issued its first quarterly earnings report as a publicly traded company, reporting a net loss of $72.6 million for the second quarter, five times the net…
Commercial Rockwell Collins Developing Avionics Systems Analysis Tool for NASA Rockwell Collins has secured a one-year contract to begin developing new software analysis tools for verifying the safety of avionics systems on future commercial aircraft. NASA is looking to evaluate the…
ATM Modernization Rockwell Collins Traffic Computer Receives FAA Certification Rockwell Collins announced Aug. 5 that its new TTR-2100 Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) for aircraft has received FAA certification. The traffic computer, which enables NextGen traffic surveillance, is now…