Any good bike ride should have a big climb to push your fitness, and a nice descent for the joy of careening down at high speed. [Glen Akins] has been recording his altitude during his mountain biking ...

L-3 Communications Avionics Systems, Grand Rapids, Michigan, has been awarded a $10,533,380 firm-fixed-priced contract for F/A-18 aircraft altitude indicators. This was a sole-source acquisition using ...

The synthetic highway in the sky (HITS) has become a reality in aircraft cockpits, and Chelton Flight Systems has been key in making it so. The Boise, Idaho-based avionics manufacturer gained Federal ...

Flying an aircraft to the edge of space usually involves a jet engine, a full tank of fuel, a whole load of noise and a pilot with the kind of Right Stuff needed to reach for the stars. Not any more.