Latest Articles by Tish Drake

Business & GA

Curtiss-Wright to Supply ADAUs for Primus Apex

Curtiss-Wright Controls received a contract from Honeywell to provide Advanced Data Acquisition Units (ADAU) for use on its Primus Apex Integrated Flight Deck. The Curtiss-Wright Controls products will provide the conversion of…

Business & GA

Avidyne, MIT to Study ADS-B

Avidyne and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) were awarded a $4 million, three-year grant to study Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) under the FAA's Airborne Traffic Situational Awareness with Alerts (TSAA) program.…

ATM Modernization

Europe ANSPs Gear Up for Olympics

Eric Bruneau, director operations of the French Direction Service Navigation Aerienne, and Chris Stadler, head of operations Maastricht UAC, observe operations at the FABEC Olympic cell in Maastricht, the Netherlands. With the London…

Military

Mercury Computer Awarded Image Processing Contract

Mercury Computer Systems, of Chelmsford, Mass., received $5.2 million in follow-on orders from an unnamed defense prime contractor for rugged, digital signal and image processing modules for multiple airborne radar applications. “We…

Commercial

U.K., France Advance UAS Cooperation

France and the U.K. are moving forward with its defense cooperation, announcing France will undertake operational assessments and trials of the Thales Watchkeeper unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in 2012 and 2013 and the two…

Business & GA

Aspen Avionics Awarded STC for MFD on R44

Aspen Avionics received FAA approval for installation of its H-series Primary Flight Displays (PFD) and Multi-function Flight Displays (MFD) into the Robinson R44 and R44 II model helicopters. The PFD is a…

Commercial

NAVAIR Names New Chief of Unmanned Aviation

Rear Adm. Mathias Winter Rear Adm. Mathias Winter was named head of the Naval Air System Command's (NAVAIR) Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons (PEO(U&W)) during a change of command…