HONEYWELL HAS teamed with Trimble Navigation to develop and market global-positioning-system (GPS) products for the air-transport retrofit market.
The agreement, signed on the eve of the Paris air show, does not affect Honeywell's alliance with Canadian Marconi, which supplies the sensor for the US manufacturer's new-airliner GPS products. Under the new agreement, retrofit products will include Trimble's GPS-receiver technology.
The Trimble link will not affect Honeywell's joint venture with Canada's Pelorus Navigation Systems to develop GPS-based landing systems.
Also announced at the show, was a contract to supply an SLS-2000 landing system and Honeywell TracLink GPS-based vehicle-tracking system to the airports commission of Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota.
Honeywell says that this landing system will be the first in the world to be certificated for passenger service. Special Category I certification is planned for early 1996. A TracLink trail, involving four vehicles, will follow certification.
Russian inertial-reference-system manufacturer Ramensky Priborostroitelny Zavod (RPZ) is to co-produce Honeywell equipment for sale in the CIS. RPZ will build and support Honeywell's 10MCU-size inertial-reference systems.
Source: Flight International
