Embedded Avionics Northrop Grumman Seeks Open Architecture for Black Hawk Currently, the average U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters is 23 years old with on-board systems that operate independently of one another. The U.S. Army is looking to upgrade its fleet of UH-60L…
Commercial Transaero Expands In-flight Connectivity Russian carrier Transaero is expanding its in-flight connectivity service to more aircraft, announcing plans Thursday to make the service available on 30 aircraft by the beginning of 2014. Currently the airline…
Business & GA Honeywell Brings Synthetic Vision to Epic 2.0 On the 10-year anniversary of the original Primus Epic platform, Honeywell unveiled an upgraded "Epic 2.0" version with access to the aerospace and defense manufacturer's SmartView synthetic vision system, among other new…
Commercial EASA Pursues In-flight Mobile Calling Policy The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is looking to certify in-flight cell phone calls, the agency said Wednesday along with announcing the approval of the use of personal electronic devices (PED) during…
Commercial EasyJet Systems to Detect Volcanic Ash U.K.-based discount carrier EasyJet is looking to equip some of its aircraft with a volcanic ash detection system by the end of next year, the carrier said Wednesday. [During testing,…
Business & GA Jeppesen Upgrades EFB for iPad Jeppesen has upgraded its FliteDeck Pro electronic flight bag (EFB) iPad solution to begin automatically displaying airport taxi diagrams based on user-configured speed settings, the Boeing Digital Aviation subsidiary said Wednesday. …
Commercial U.S. Air Force Increasing Cyber Security The U.S. Air Force has issued a new task order to General Dynamics Information Technology to provide modernized base-level network security boundary support at all active Air Force and Air National Guard…
ATM Modernization Airbus Approves Communications Retrofit for A380s Airbus has formed a new joint agreement with Panasonic Avionics and Lufthansa Technik to retrofit all in-service A380s with broadband connectivity and mobile phone services. Under the agreement, the first of…