Business & GAUniversal Display Installed on Hawker 700A The EFI-890R Flat Panel Glass Display from Universal Avionics, Tucson, Ariz., has been added to the Hawker 700A. The upgrade modification of the Hawker 700A was completed by Mid-Canada Mod Center at…
CommercialRockwell Collins Acquires Display Provider Rockwell Collins announced plans Friday to acquire SEOS, West Sussex, U.K., a supplier of visual display systems for commercial and military full flight simulators. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. After completion…
CommercialSITA 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 & GAShadin 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 & GAGulfstream 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…
CommercialNew 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…
CommercialEurope 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…
MilitaryCurtiss-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…