Airshow has launched the iSYS Intelligent Cabin Systems to integrate the supplier's in-flight entertainment (IFE) and information systems on business jets. ISYS combines the Airshow Network news and weather service; airborne satellite tv service, Airshow TV International; Airshow 400 moving map; Airshow M@il e-mail service; and AirPlay audio and video system.
Source: Flight International
New UK minister for defence procurement Maria Eagle announced a major order for Thales’s lightweight multirole missile (LMM) at the Farnborough air show on 24 July.
Known in Pentagon lingo as Milestone B, the decision by US Army procurement authorities will formally launch a programme of record to acquire Bell’s next-generation tiltrotor, formerly known as the V-280.
Leonardo Helicopters’ UK plant in Yeovil could end up building four different military rotorcraft types if the ambitions of its managing director are realised.
