Content Archive: January 2008

Accidents

Air Midwest crash ushers in regionals’ day of disaster

From a humanitarian perspective, regional air transport suffered perhaps its most destructive 24-hour stretch in history last month.

Great Lakes finds security in marriage with Raytheon

Great Lakes Aviation appears to have escaped a brush with certain bankruptcy thanks to a recently signed agreement with Raytheon Aircraft that gives the Wi

Sans fanfare, reborn Midway takes off into turbulent skies

Morrisville, N.C.-based Midway Airlines has reinvented itself for the sixth time in its checkered history, this time as a US Airways Express affiliate flyi
Avionics

T2CAS poised to usher in new stage of flying safety

Two days of test flying are all that remain before the FAA can put its stamp of approval on T2CAS, the combined TCAS and TAWS product from Phoenix-based AC
Avionics

Honeywell Acquires Baker Electronics

Honeywell last month purchased the assets of cabin avionics specialist Baker Electronics.
Avionics

FAA Certifies Aviation’s First IFR WAAS Receiver

The FAA has certified an IFR WAAS receiver developed by UPS Aviation Technologies, the key ingredient in a forthcoming line of satellite navigation equipme
Avionics

Spirent Introduces Customizable Aircraft Server

Wichita-based Spirent Systems last month announced that the FAA awarded its latest aircraft file server–a PC running the Windows NT operating system–an STC
Avionics

Lufthansa Starts Connexion Trials

Boeing’s new Connexion satellite Internet service last month began operating in revenue passenger service aboard a Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 flying daily be
Avionics

Globalstar-based Satcom System Makes Debut

Northern Airborne Technology, a British Columbia-based subsidiary of the Chelton Group, last month introduced a lightweight satcom system that routes calls
ATC

Choosing the right handheld EFB

In the last couple of years the concept of portable cockpit computers has caught on in a big way.