Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Cessna Aircraft Company is an American general aviation aircraft manufacturer best known for its small, piston-powered aircrafts. Cessna is a subsidiary of the United States conglomerate Textron. In March of 2014, it became a brand of Textron Aviation. Read more >>

The first of these engines is the GE90-115B, manufactured by GE Aviation. This engine generates up to 115,300 pounds of thrust at sea level which makes it the world’s most powerful commercial jet engine. At a GE testing facility in 2002, the engine generated 127,900 pounds of thrust which secured it a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. The GE90-115B engine was specifically developed for the Boeing 777 series and over 1,000 engines are currently in service with Boeing. The engine is 135 inches in diameter and 287 inches long. Its aerodynamic design allows the light blades to minimize the engine weight while also drawing large amounts of air into the engine. Read more >>

American Airlines has become the second airline to operate the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner in the States, joining United Airlines.Their patience was finally rewarded as the airliner – originally scheduled to be delivered last November – made its first flight from Everett, Washington to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. They...

On the third week of January 2015, Airbus and Boeing (the world’s two largest manufacturers of airliners) released their figures for orders and deliveries for the year 2014: Read more >>

Headquartered in Italy, Augusta Westland is now a multi-national company specializing in helicopter design and manufacturing. It was created in July of 2000, when Finmeccanica and GKN decided to merge their individual helicopter subsidiaries to form one larger one, each holding a 50% share. On May 26, 2004, GKN confirmed that it had agreed to sell its entire share of AgustaWestland for nearly USD$2 billion, resulting in AgustaWestland becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Finmeccanica. Read more >>

In 1990, Congress ordered the Department of Defense’s Research and Engineering Enterprise to update the computational abilities available to the Department of Defense. This led to the 1992 establishment of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), created as a response to congressional mandates to update the federal agency’s high performance computing laboratory to modern standards.The primary goal of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program is to accelerate technological development and transition the agency into greater defense abilities through the strategic application of high performance computing, networking, and computational methods. Over the program’s 20 years of existence, leadership has been managed by several DoD entities including the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Assistant Secretary of the Army. With a commitment to protect the natio...

Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading American global aerospace and defense technology company. Originally starting as Northrop Corporation in 1939, it was not until 1994 where Northrop Aircraft merged with Grumman Aerospace to form the corporation it is today. The company is headquartered in West Falls Church, Virginia, and is considered as one of the largest corporations in America. Read more >>

The ATACMS is a surface to surface missile manufactured by Lockheed Martin in 1986. With a range of over 160 kilometers, the missile is currently the only tactical long range precision strike surface to surface weapon used by the U.S. Army. Over 560 missiles have been fired in combat with 450 of them being during the Operation Iraqi Freedom. Read more >>

Panasonic Avionics Corporation, which specializes in in-flight entertainment and communications solutions, recently unveiled the new Panasonic HD-AUDIO, an all-new audio solution for in-flight entertainment that was developed along with Soundchip SA. The new technology boasts seven new features that have never been used before on an aircraft, providing passengers with a fully digital sonic experience and the best quality digital surround sound to date. Other features also include a passenger-controlled equalizers, noise cancellation, and bluetooth integration with mobile devices. Read more >>