Northwest ordered 36 Embraer 175 regional jets in a two-class, 76-seat configuration for its new regional carrier subsidiary, Compass, which will fly as Northwest Airlink. Northwest already contracts ...

Trimec Aviation, a certified Part 145 repair station based in Fort Worth, has added a Capital Avionics CA-420 digital compass rose system to calibrate an aircraft magnetic compass. The aircraft ...

ST. LOUIS, MO – Compass Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trans States Holdings, Inc., today announced it will operate 20 new 76-seat Embraer E175 aircraft owned by American Airlines, Inc. ST.

Will we ever be able to trust an autonomous aircraft? Mark Skoog, the principal investigator for autonomy at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, joins Aviation Week’s Graham Warwick and Guy Norris ...

The G550 business jet platform is taking over the communications intelligence and jamming role from the EC-130H Hercules. Wearing primer and registered to Gulfstream as N591GA, one of the first ...

The first EC-130H "Compass Call" aircraft, modified to disrupt enemy communications, arrived at at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona in March 1982. That aircraft, tail number 1587, made its ...

The EC-37B, the Air Force's next Compass Call aircraft, will be a modified version of the Gulfstream G550 business jet packed with jamming and other electronic warfare equipment. The Air Force already ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Compass Airlines, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northwest Airlines (NYSE:NWA), today announced that the regional carrier will construct an aircraft maintenance ...

Compass Point keeps a Buy rating on FTAI Aviation (FTAI) with a $181 price target after the company announced its “Strategic Capital initiative.” All of the engines that are part of this partnership ...

In the 1980s, I worked as an avionics supervisor at Hayes International Aircraft Corp. in Birmingham, Ala. A Boeing KC-135 test pilot on return from a test flight told me in a debriefing that they had ...

__1920: __A U.S. Navy seaplane departs Hampton Roads, Virginia, and heads out over the ocean. Using a new radio compass, the pilots are able to locate and fly directly to a Navy ship nearly 100 miles ...