Honeywell will supply the flight management system (FMS) for the Airbus A380. Honeywell, which beat a Thales/Smiths Aerospace team for the contract, estimates $200 million revenues from the business over a 15-year period. The FMS for the A380 will be based on Honeywell's Pegasus system, but will incorporate new hardware to provide greater speed and memory, and a new graphical user interface. Certification is due in 2005 to meet A380 deliveries in 2006.
Source: Flight International
The US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) top inspector says the Federal Aviation Administration lacks effective oversight of Boeing’s 737 and 787 production systems.
Boeing plans to lay off roughly 17,000 workers, delay its first 777-9 delivery and end 767 Freighter production, part of a plan to restructure its business around “core” products and keep afloat amid a crippling machinists strike and numerous other business challenges.
Russia’s Sokol aerostructures facility has finished initial preparations to manufacture the aft fuselage section of Yakovlev MC-21s. The plant in Nizhny Novgorod will produce the section behind the aft pressure bulkhead, located beneath the vertical fin and mated with the horizontal stabiliser. United Aircraft says the first stage of preparations ...
