Latest Articles by Tish Drake

Commercial

SITA OKs TrueNorth for ACARS

TrueNorth Avionics, Ottawa, Canada, said its new Iridium-based Simphone cockpit datalink unit (DLU) has been qualified for operation on the SITA ACARS network. The Simphone DLU works with TrueNorth’s Simphone executive airborne…

Business & GA

Shadin Avionics Named Interim CEO

David Olson was named interim CEO of Shadin Avionics, St. Louis Park, Minn., replacing Allan Kramer who resigned Oct. 8 after only five months in the position. The company said Olson has…

Business & GA

Gulfstream Tests 'Fly-by-Wireless' System

Gulfstream Aerospace demonstrated aircraft control using “Fly-By-Wireless” technology. The flight, which took place Sept. 18, is the first known application of wireless signaling for a primary flight-control surface in a civilian or…

Commercial

New ATC Systems Installed at U.S. Airports

A Raytheon-Lockheed Martin team installed terminal air traffic control systems at four major U.S. airports, the companies said Thursday. The new automated radar processing and display systems are a part of FAA’s…

Commercial

Europe Adopts Datalink Implementation Rule

The Single Sky Committee at the European Commission adopted an implementing rule that will see full-scale implementation of datalink services across Europe by 2015. Under the terms of the rule, datalink will…

Military

Curtiss-Wright Completes VMETRO Acquisition

Curtiss-Wright, Roseland, N.J., on Wednesday completed its $72 million acquisition of VMETRO, of Oslo, Norway. VMETRO will become part of the Motion Control segment's Embedded Computing group. "VMETRO is a global leader…

Business & GA

Panasonic Avionics, EMS Sign Antenna Pact

Panasonic Avionics Corp., Lake Forest, Calif., announced a multi-year contract with EMS Technologies, Atlanta, for the supply of Panasonic eXConnect system antennas. Under the agreement, EMS Technologies’ Defense & Space Systems Division…

Commercial

Rockwell Collins Avionics on Aer Lingus

Aer Lingus selected Rockwell Collins to provide a suite of avionics, including MultiScan weather radar, the GLU-920 Multi-Mode Receiver and a full range of communication and navigation offerings, on six Airbus A330…