Taiwan-based international carrier EVA Airways, a unit of the Evergreen Group, signed a contract with ARINC for ARINC’s GLOBALink Satellite Communications (SATCOM) services to enhance its passenger and flight deck communications. The new satellite connectivity will offer higher bandwidth for improved access to vital flight information by EVA flight crews, as well as seamless in-flight
Rockwell Collins unveiled the industry’s first touch-control primary flight displays for business jets and turboprop aircraft, which will be available on future applications of the company’s Pro Line Fusion avionics system. The announcement was made at the 59th Annual Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) AirVenture in Oshkosh. “These displays demonstrate our focus on empowering pilots with natural head-up,
Embraer has received Type Certification (TC) from Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), for the Phenom 300 light jet to operate in the country. Frst certified in December 2009 by Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil – ANAC) and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Phenom 300 is now accepted
Avio looks to the future and, as a tangible sign of its thrust for innovation, adopts a new logo. The Group, a leader in propulsion systems, is involved in increasingly challenging industrial projects, such as the next generation aeroengines, expansion in the Chinese market and the Vega satellite launcher, to mention but a few. The
Eurocopter and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), have reiterated their commitment to take their five decade long relationship to the next level. The long-time partners are in the process of signing agreements to further strengthen their industrial cooperation and links. This association will focus on increasing existing collaboration and exploring new potential business areas to serve
ANA Group, Japan’s largest airline and low cost carrier AirAsia, are teaming up to form AirAsia Japan, a new low-cost airline. AirAsia Japan will be the first low-cost carrier to be based at Narita International Airport. Operating under the AirAsia brand, it will serve both domestic and international destinations when commencing operations in August 2012, subject to
SimCom Training Centers, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, has announced recent enhancements to its fleet of simulators representing turboprop and piston-powered aircraft. Improvements to the visual systems in these devices give pilots a more realistic view of the outside world, providing them a more effective training experience than ever before. And new WAAS capable GPS installations
Embraer has become the newest member of the Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association (AFRA). The announcement was made, on July 20th, at AFRA’s Annual Meeting, in Washington, D.C., USA. Embraer becomes the third leading aircraft manufacturers to link-up with AFRA. For the past five years, AFRA has set industry standards for the safe and sustainable disassembly
Lufthansa Technik Logistik (LTL) and SuperJet International are stepping up their collaboration that dates from the beginning of 2009. Under a contract extension LTL will supplement the warehousing service it already provides in Frankfurt, by taking over all the transport services for the Italian-Russian aircraft manufacturer, thus ensuring rapid and reliable spares provisioning for customers of
Lufthansa is launching a six-month biofuel trial on regular scheduled flights. A Lufthansa Airbus A321 with the registration D-AIDG will fly the Hamburg-Frankfurt-Hamburg route four times daily. One of its engines will run on a 50/50 mix of regular fuel and biosynthetic kerosene. The biofuel for jet engines has been approved by the American Society
