MilitaryDetailed Design Complete for GE's Revolutionary Adaptive Fighter Engine GE Aviation has completed the detailed design process of its XA100 engine under the U.S. Air Force's Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP), the company announced Thursday. The latest development means that GE…
CommercialFAA Grants New Bell 505 Flight Deck Lighting STC The FAA has issued Aero Dyanamix, Inc. (ADI) a new STC for a Bell 505 night vision avionics lighting system. ADI manufactures edge-lit panels, circuit-breaker packages and does any modifications necessary to…
ConnectivityADS-B: Who Will Make the FAA Deadline? Civil aviation is a $1.6-trillion-per-year industry in the U.S., and most of that money will be grounded unless aircraft are equipped with ADS-B-compliant transponders on January 1, 2020. Ground infrastructure
CommercialBritish Airways Buys Boeing 777-9 Haul Worth up to $18.6 Billion Boeing will sell a minimum of 18 777-9 jets to British Airways in a deal with options that could have a value of $18.6 billion by list prices. The deal is with…
Embedded AvionicsNorthrop to Develop Open-Architecture Embedded GPS for USAF The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $59 million contract to develop an embedded GPS system for the F-22 Raptor and other aircraft. The embedded GPS/INS-modernization (EGI-M) program will be…
MilitaryGA-ASI MQ-9B SkyGuardian Demos Satcom, Laptop-Controlled Mission General Atomics' MQ-9B SkyGuardian completed a demonstration sortie without the use of an on-site ground control station (GCS) this month, relying on only satcom and the company's expeditionary command-and-control (XC2) portable laptop. One…
Military'Team Reaper Australia' Takes Shape as GA-ASI Names 10 MQ-9 Partners General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has named 10 partner companies that will comprise Team Reaper Australia, which will furnish the country's military with either MQ-9A or MQ-9B large UAS. Australia named GA-ASI as…
CommercialNTSB Investigating Deadly Crash of Amazon Cargo Flight, Atlas Air 3591 Atlas Air Flight 3591 crashed into a bay outside Anahuac, Texas Saturday, killing all three people on board. The National Transportation Safety Administration's "go team" is on site collecting evidence as part…