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Lockheed Martin Completes 400th MH-60 Digital Cockpit for Installation on First Australian Romeo Helicopter
Lockheed Martin has completed the 400th Common Cockpit™ avionics suite for the U.S. Navy’s MH-60 Seahawk helicopter program. The digital cockpit will be installed aboard the first of 24 MH-60R (Romeo) anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare helicopters to be acquired… Continue reading
Embraer Selects Honeywell to Provide Avionics for E-Jets Second Generation
Embraer S.A. (NYSE: ERJ; BM&FBOVESPA: EMBR3) has selected Honeywell (NYSE: HON) to provide its Primus Epic 2 integrated avionics system for the second generation of E-Jets, which are planned to enter service in 2018. The decision is another important milestone… Continue reading
Alenia Aermacchi: new version of SF-260 with glass cockpit completes first flight
Alenia Aermacchi’s SF-260TP primary and basic trainer, equipped with new digital avionics (Glass Cockpit), an enhanced multi-spectral vision system and an upgraded air conditioning system has completed its first flight in Venegono, Italy. The aircraft is in final testing stages,… Continue reading Boeing, AEL Link Cockpit Simulators in US and Brazil
Successful demonstration holds promise for future cockpit technology collaborationST. LOUIS, Sept. 18, 2012 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] last month linked one of its advanced fighter cockpit simulators in St. Louis with a simulator more than 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers)… Continue reading
Qantas pilots grounded after cockpit argument
QANTAS has stood down two pilots who argued in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 on the tarmac at Dallas’s international airport.
A captain and second officer on a 747-400 disagreed over the take-off calculations they should be punching into… Continue reading
GULFSTREAM RECEIVES EASA AND FAA APPROVAL FOR GV/GIV/GIV-SP/G400/G300 COCKPIT UPGRADE
PlaneDeck Enhances Aircraft’s Safety, Efficiency and Reliability
SAVANNAH, Ga., June 22, 2012 — Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced today that it recently received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to retrofit Gulfstream GV, GIV,… Continue reading
Boeing Delivers 1st EA-18G Growler Featuring Bharat Electronics Limited Cockpit Subassembly
Boeing on May 3 delivered to the U.S. Navy the first EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft with a cockpit subassembly produced by Bangalore-based Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL). The subassembly provides cockpit floodlighting compatible with the aircraft’s Night Vision Imaging System… Continue reading
Simulated Flight: Three Days and Nights in Solar Impulse Cockpit
Solar Impulse will simulate a 72-hour flight in a full-size mock-up cockpit of the second airplane, currently under construction. André Borschberg will put the design and configuration of the cockpit to the test, and evaluate the demands that a flight… Continue reading
Cockpit surveillance now operational
On 7 February 2012, Swiss Airlines operated the first commercial flight equipped with a certified traffic situational awareness system, providing the pilots with real-time surveillance information on surrounding traffic. A première in Europe.
A breakthrough point has been reached in… Continue reading
Boeing Marks Delivery of 1st C-130 AMP Aircraft Modified by Warner Robins Air Logistics Center
WARNER ROBINS, Ga., Jan. 6, 2012 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Warner Robins Air Logistics Center on Jan. 3 marked delivery of the first… Continue reading
Fully Integrated Thales Cockpit Offers Increased Functionality in New Sikorsky S-76D™ Helicopter
STRATFORD, Connecticut – The Thales TopDeck® avionics suite to be installed in Sikorsky’s new S-76D™ helicopter will offer new “click to fly” ability based on a concept that has never been installed on a helicopter before: the Icube-S concept… Continue reading
Airbus Military Polska signs a contract to develop a Glass Cockpit for the Orlik trainer
Airbus Military Polska signed a contract with the Technical Institute of Aviation Military Forces (ITWL) of Poland to further upgrade the Orlik TC II aircraft by developing and equipping the aircraft with a glass cockpit. The Orlik is a tandem… Continue reading