Business & GA Solar-Powered Airplane Ready for Coast-to-Coast U.S. Flight Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, founders of the Solar Impulse project, on Thursday announced a schedule for their coast-to-coast U.S. flight with their aircraft powered exclusively by solar energy. Piccard…
Commercial FAA Launches Online Forum for Unmanned Aircraft Privacy Discussion FAA said it will hold an online public engagement forum Wednesday April 3, to allow public comments regarding the privacy policy being drafted to regulate the introduction of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)…
Commercial NPCA Study Advocates for Exploring Civilian, Commercial Use of UAS The integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the national airspace system (NAS) by FAA’s 2015 deadline has the potential to create jobs and new technological applications for the civilian, commercial and…
Embedded Avionics U.S. Navy Selects Northrop Grumman for CAINS II The U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command selected Northrop Grumman for a $13.2 million contract to provide logistics and support for the AN/ASN-139 Carrier Aircraft Inertial Navigation System (CAINS II). The AN/ASN-139 CAINS…
Business & GA AEA Reports 2012 GA Avionics Sales of Nearly $6.3 Billion The Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) released its first ever avionics market report on Tuesday, showing total avionics sales of nearly $6.3 billion in 2012 for the general aviation industry. AEA said the…
Commercial South African Airways Selects Rockwell Collins Avionics for A320s South African Airways (SAA) will deploy a full suite of Rockwell Collins avionics on 20 new Airbus A320s. Rockwell Collins said the African carrier selected communications, surveillance, navigation avionics as well as…
Commercial US Airways Approves New Cargo Tracking System US Airways has approved a new airborne asset tracking system, the SENTRY FlightSafe system from OnAsset Intelligence (OnAsset). FlightSafe is a cellular-based sensing device that includes sensors for temperature, humidity, pressure and…
Business & GA Aircell Announces Gogo Biz Expansion in Canada In-flight connectivity equipment provider Aircell released details on the expansion of Gogo Biz in-flight Internet service for business aircraft operating in Canadian airspace. Currently Gogo Biz, introduced to the U.S. business aviation…