Boeing says that the US Federal Aviation Administration is negotiating to join the manufacturer's global-positioning-system (GPS) landing-system evaluation programme, scheduled to start in June with delivery of four rival systems for installation on NASA's Boeing 757.
The Boeing programme would follow the FAA's GPS automatic-landing technology demonstration, conducted by E-Systems and Wilcox, and is designed to develop requirements for the architecture, performance, installation and certification of a Category III GPS landing-system.
The four airborne/ground-equipment supplier teams are: Honeywell/Pelorus Navigation Systems, Interstate Electronics/Airport Systems International, Litton/Wilcox and Rockwell-Collins/Daimler-Benz Aerospace. Flight trials begin in August at NASA's Wallops Island test site, with some 250 approaches planned.
Source: Flight International
