MilitaryBoeing to Open Avionics MRO Center in Korea Boeing will establish an avionics maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) center in the Yeongcheon industry district of the Daegu-Gyeongbuk free economic zone in South Korea. The MRO center will support the Republic…
Business & GAPilotView EFB Receives EASA Certification for Airbus A330 The Esterline CMC Electronics PilotView electronic flight bag (EFB) has received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for the Airbus A330-200/300. EASA issued the certification for installation by PMVE Engineering of France,…
ATM ModernizationEditor's note: 2015: UAS Odyssey The unmanned aviation industry is poised for some rather explosive growth in the next few years, if the discussions on the floor of the Association of Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) are…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan COMMERCIAL GE Buys Austin Digital GE Aviation acquired Austin Digital, a privately owned, Texas-based supplier of flight operations data analysis, which is designed to “strengthen GE’s services offerings with integrated solutions for…
ATM ModernizationRouting RNP Alaska Airlines, which pioneered RNP, has been flying RNP approaches into 27 airports. In 2011, these approaches saved the airline 210,000 gallon of fuel and $19 million. Performance-based navigation (PBN), a key…
CommercialWhat Will Follow GPS? Alaska Airlines, which pioneered RNP, has been flying RNP approaches into 27 airports. In 2011, these approaches saved the airline 210,000 gallon of fuel and $19 million. It may seem strange, almost…
CommercialTest Equipment Boeing said its Reconfigurable Transportable Consolidated Automated Support System supports 639 different Units Under Test (UUT) and is set to host more than 750 UUTs. Pressed by tight budgets and program delays,…
CommercialImplementing a Complex Bus Solution with a Runtime-Defined Instrument Architecture Historically, defense and aerospace test programs on large-scale automatic test equipment (ATE) operated by sequentially applying, measuring and comparing voltages, currents, waveforms and digital truth tables. This procedural approach worked well in…