Meggitt Avionics has won a contract to supply solid-state liquid-crystal-display altimeters and air-data computers to enable Vickers VC10 transports of the Royal Air Force to meet North Atlantic reduced vertical-separation minima (RVSM), which are to be implemented this year. The first of 35 shipsets will be delivered to prime contractor British Aerospace in April. The UK company sees "major opportunities in the military-transport and business-jet markets" for its RVSM retrofit upgrade, says Peter O'Sullivan, Meggitt Avionics sales and marketing director.
Source: Flight International