France's aerospace heavyweight Dassault Aviation pointed to the future last year when it unveiled plans for the Falcon SST, a supersonic business jet.
Based on Golden-i, Motorola Solutions (MSI) is producing its HC1 modular head mounted computer that offers connectivity and support to industries like defense, utilities, telecommunications, aerospace, and aviation industries that are fieldwork heavy.
Growing up in a time when the U.S. was going to the moon in 1969, he quickly became fascinated with aviation, aerospace, and engineering.
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"The U-2 is an extremely capable surveillance platform that has one key advantage: It has already been paid for, " said Richard Aboulafia, an aviation analyst with Teal Group, an aerospace consultancy.
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But they also said that China is catching up fast in other areas of civil and military aviation technology, thanks in large part to technology transferred by foreign aerospace companies in Chinese joint ventures.
Failing to appreciate how greatly the ebb and flow of commerce depends upon an efficient and safe aviation system, and possibly insensitive to the aggressive competition from foreign aerospace manufacturers seeking advances in ATC modernization, they argue there are more pressing problems that demand attention and dollars.
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In our interview he declined to specify exactly what vulnerabilities he discovered in that code, saying that he has instead contacted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Administration, (EASA) and is working with the affected aerospace companies to fix the problems.
"The greatest obstacle is the refusal by the aircraft's manufacturer -- formerly British Aerospace-Aerospatiale, now Airbus -- to lend its support to a restoration, " said aviation journalist David Kaminski-Morrow, air transport editor of Flightglobal.com.
Last year, CAIGA successfully bid on the assets of bankrupt Epic Aviation, and it has also has entered into deals to buy Teledyne Continental Motors and Emivest Aerospace, the maker of the SJ30 business jet.
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