ST. LOUIS, Mo., 26 April 2012. The Boeing Co.[NYSE: BA] delivered a second set of P-8A Poseidon training devices to the U.S. Navy on March 29 at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla. The delivery consisted of an Operational Flight Trainer (OFT), a Weapons Tactics Trainer (WTT) and four Electronic Classrooms.

NASHUA, N.H., 25 April 2012. Join the staff of Avionics Intelligence for a free Webinar on meeting DO-178C objectives in avionics designs tomorrow, Thurs., 26 April at 11 am EDT.

NEW YORK, 12 April 2012. L-3 Communications (NYSE:LLL) in New York has entered into an agreement to acquire the civil aircraft simulation and training business of Thales Training & Simulation Ltd., with facilities in the U.K., France, Germany, and Australia.

AMBLER, Pa., 3 April 2012. MEN Micro Inc. in Ambler, Pa., is introducing the G214 3U CompactPCI Serial multi-display controller board based on the AMD Radeon processor architecture for video surveillance in control rooms and simulators, radar processing, video imaging, and other embedded computing applications that require general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs).

WICHITA, Kan., 1 April 2012. Hawker Beechcraft Corp. in Wichita, Kan., is selling 10 King Air twin-engine turboprop aircraft to the Chinese aviation company Avion Pacific Ltd. in Shenzhen, China, for about $50 million. Avion Pacific will use the King Air 350i and King Air C90GTx aircraft for VIP travel, pilot training, aerial mapping, and weather modification. Deliveries are to begin this winter.

MIAMI, Fla., 29 March, 2012. Miami Pan Am International Flight Academy continued its expansion plans by announcing the acquisition of three additional full flight simulators to be placed immediately in service at their Miami and Memphis training facilities.

Israel, 28 March, 2012. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) recently introduced the UMT UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Mission Trainer.

SANTIAGO, Chile, 28 March 2012. The Boeing Co. [NYSE: BA] and Elbit Systems are collaborating on a joint distributed simulation project that will link a Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet simulator in St. Louis with an AEL Avionics Laboratory simulator in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

ARLINGTON, Texas, 27 March 2012. L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) won a Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division contract to build an F/A-18D Tactical Operational Flight Trainer (TOFT) for the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF).

BOHEMIA, N.Y., 18 March 2012. Data Device Corp. (DDC) in Bohemia, N.Y., is introducing a small-form-factor two-channel MIL-STD-1553 USB printed circuit card for avionics and embedded computing applications in civil and military embedded systems. The USB card is for adding a 1553 bus interface to any embedded system, laptop, or tablet computer.

TOULOUSE, 17 March 2012. To support the growing number of ATR aircraft in Africa, ATR, the European manufacturer of turboprop aircraft, has opened a new training center for pilots and maintenance technicians in Johannesburg, South Africa.

MONKS FERRY, U.K., 22 Feb 2012. LDRA, a provider of standards compliance, automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools, has launched LDRA Certification Services (LCS) to help customers develop certification-ready products. The LCS team includes Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Designated Engineering Representatives (DERs) and safety engineering experts, and is aligned with product development and verification specialists who use the LDRA tool suite and other tools to address critical project requirements at high design-assurance levels.

EGLIN AFB, Fla., 12 Feb. 2012. The BF-7, an F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) jet, arrived at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., following a 90-minute ferry flight piloted by U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Joseph Bachmann from Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base. The addition of the BF-7 makes Eglin AFB the home of the largest F-35 fleet in the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).

HOUSTON, 4 Feb. 2012. NASA officials announced receipt of more than 6,300 applications from individuals desirous of becoming a NASA astronaut. The second highest number of applications ever received by the agency was logged between 15 Nov. 2011 and 27 Jan. 2012. NASA officials will select between nine and 15 people, following a thorough selection process that includes interviews and medical examinations, to become part of the 21st astronaut class.

MCLEAN, Va., 9 Jan. 2012. Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC; NYSE: SAI) won a task order from the Program Executive Office (PEO) for Simulation, Training & Instrumentation (STRI) Acquisition Center under the Simulator & Trainer Omnibus Contract (STOC) II vehicle. The task order—with a one-year base period of performance, four one-year options, and a contract value of more than $55 million, if all options are exercised and funded—calls for SAIC engineers to advance the capabilities of One Semi-Automated Forces (OneSAF) for a broad audience. 

HOUSTON, 19 Dec. 2011. Executives from NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, and Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, are expected to sign an agreement today that marks the beginning of the Shuttle Motion Simulator’s move to College Station. The NASA-Texas A&M partnership enables the college to house and showcase the primary space shuttle launch and landing trainer, considered unique space shuttle training artifacts.

SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., 7 Dec. 2011. Environmental Technology Corp. (ETC) officials have begun static testing of the company’s ATFS 400 Model 31 high-performance human centrifuge, designed and manufactured by ETC's Aircrew Training Systems (ATS) business unit. The unit is will be delivered to the U.S. Air Force next year, where it will be used to conduct high-G training for operational and aeromedical aircrew, research, and equipment qualification. The ATFS-400 Model 31 integrates high-fidelity virtual tactical simulation, provides a flyable human training and research centrifuge, can generate up to 20 Gs with a 15 G-per-second onset, and comes with three separate cockpit modules and wide field of view visuals.

SEATTLE, 5 Dec. 2011. Officials from Boeing (NYSE:BA) and 43 Air School (Pty) Ltd., Africa's largest flight training organization, have partnered to provide a comprehensive pilot training program with the goal of maintaining and enhancing aviation safety in Africa and around the world. Participants in the program will receive training at the "ab initio," or basic, level from the experienced flight school and at the commercial jet level from Boeing.

SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., 23 Nov. 2011. Environmental Tectonics Corp. (ETC) has shipped to Wright0Patterson Air Force Base the cockpit capsule with rotating gimbals and linear sleds--representing the last and most important subassembly of its GL-6000 advanced training and research device. ETC’s Aircrew Training Systems (ATS) business unit previously won a contract from U.S. Navy officials to provide the GL-6000 in support of clinical and operational research and mishap investigation.