The Avionics Intelligence Blog

Posted by John Keller In the continuing grudge match over passenger aircraft sales at major global air shows, Airbus in Toulouse, France, has prevailed over Boeing Commercial Airplanes at thi...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/11/airbus-prevails-over-boeing-in-dubai.html

Posted by John Keller We've got an update on the Avionics Europe 2012 conference and exposition, which PennWell is sponsoring March 21 and 22 in Munich. Avionics giant Thales has signed on ...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/11/update-on-avionics-europe-conference.html

I had the opportunity to meet with high-level executives at military and aerospace technology firms throughout the Pacific Northwest in the past couple weeks. I had the pleasure of discussing...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/11/space-geeks-rejoice-nasa-news-abounds.html

By Courtney E. Howard When I began covering the aerospace market and, soon after, relocated to the Pacific Northwest, I was surprised to find that although The Boeing Company was considere...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/11/boeing-giant-awakens.html

Posted by John Keller Hearing the Obama Administration's rhetoric on business aviation , and you'd think anyone who rides on a private jet is a criminal. Look up Obama corporate jets, and you...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/10/business-aviation-boon-to-corporate-fat.html

By C.E. Howard Color me impressed. (What color is that, anyway?) I am a space nerd , who loves all things space-oriented. I, like many others, recoiled in fear and mild horror last year whe...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/10/notable-nasa-news-dominates-desktop.html

Posted by Courtney E. Howard The 64th annual National Business Aviation Association (NBAA ) meeting and convention opened today, 10 Oct. 2011, with an inspiring, thought-provoking General ...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-to-nbaa.html

By Courtney E. Howard NASA needs astronauts. No, really. Next month, NASA officials will start accepting applications for the next class of astronaut candidates. The Astronaut Candidate Cla...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/10/help-wanted-nasa-seeks-astronauts.html

Posted by John Keller So Boeing's finally done it; they've introduced a fuel-efficient narrow-body jetliner -- the 737 MAX -- in response to the Airbus launch last December of the A320neo ...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/08/launch-of-737-max-restores-competitive.html

Posted by John Keller President Barack Obama, in a speech at the White House Wednesday , saw fit to paint an important sector of U.S. civil aviation -- business aviation -- as an icon of cor...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/06/must-entire-sector-of-us-civil-aviation.html

Posted by John McHale . Army officials were delivering heaps of praise upon EADS North America during a press conference this week for their performance regarding production of UH-72A Lakota ....

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/04/army-officials-sing-praises-of-uh-72a.html

Posted by John McHale Attendance at the Avionics Maintenance Conference (AMC)/Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) event this week in Memphis Tenn., was up by nearly 20 percent ov...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/04/amcaeec-attendance-up-as-avionics.html

Posted by John McHale After this week I'm feeling very confident that the avionics market and the aviation market as a whole is definitely on the upward climb. We just wrapped up our 2011 Avi...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/03/maybe-aviation-market-is-turning-around.html

Posted by John McHale Pilot training and not new technology is the key to improving flight safety , said Capt. Manfred Mueller, head of flight safety for Lufthansa Airlines, during his keynote...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/03/pilot-training-taking-backseat-to-new.html

Posted by John McHale "There's nothing like a new Chinook helicopter smell," someone said near me as I boarded a new CH-47F Chinook helicopter at AUSA Winter's static display outside the conv...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/02/chinook-ch-47f-pilots-loving-their.html

Posted by John McHale The headline for this blog may state the obvious, but unfortunately defense prime contractors are not always able to meet those lofty goals -- on time and on budget. Note...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/01/army-likes-contractors-who-are-on-time.html

Posted by John McHale Managing thermals in avionics is a big challenge in the OH-58F Kiowa Warrior upgrade , says Lt. Col. Scott Rauer, product manager, Kiowa Warrior Program Executive Office...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/01/managing-thermals-in-army-helicopter.html

Posted by John McHale During interviews for a story I was writing on Army helicopter avionics for our February issue of Military & Aerospace Electronics the topic of synthetic vision came u...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2011/01/army-still-exploring-synthetic-vision.html

Posted by John McHale If the Wikileaks scandal shows anything it proves that no system is secure as people may think it is -- especially software virtualization systems , said Dan O'Dowd, chie...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2010/12/security-holes-are-everywhere-even-in.html

Posted by John McHale Counter-MANPADS (man-portable air defense systems) for commercial aircraft got a lot of press after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 and I covered it quite a bit ...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2010/10/counter-manpads-for-commercial-aircraft.html

Posted by John McHale I saw a great quote from Neil Armstrong on a board at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) show here in Atlanta that I'd love to use for our Avionics Europ...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2010/10/neil-armstrong-on-being-there.html

Posted by John McHale On the flight down to my first National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) show in Atlanta this week, I contemplated what it would be like to own my jet -- a Gulfstrea...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2010/10/owning-my-own-jet-vs-flying-commercial.html

Posted by John McHale The Ada programming language has been said to be an obsolete language for years. However, it is still used throughout the defense and avionics communities and still tau...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2010/09/ada-is-not-nearly-as-dead-language-as.html

Posted by John McHale On a JetBlue flight to Phoenix this week, I took a break from a story I was writing on software defined radio and the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) and caught a co...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2010/09/archie-bunker-counter-terror-expert.html

Posted by John McHale Boeing and Lockheed Martin leaders call it re-aligning, focusing on core competencies, better positioning for the future, empowering the younger generation, yadda, yadda,...

http://avionicsintelligence.blogspot.com/2010/09/executive-layoffs-at-boeing-lockheed.html