Asap Components Blog

If anyone has ever seen the inside a cockpit of an aircraft, it may seem overwhelming to most.  Some may even see it as complicated and even hard to use.  Just like a car, an aircraft has instruments, but just different types to help guide the plane.  In a car, one might see the speedometer, to see how fast the vehicle is traveling.  In addition, there is the fuel indicator, to see how much gas the car has left before stopping at a gas station.  Also, there is the odometer, to see how far the car has driven-the odometer also helps with scheduling routine maintenance services. 

Gulfstream’s G500 and G600 business jets set groundbreaking worldwide records when they flew from Shanghai to Honolulu, and then once more from Honolulu to Savannah, Georgia, where Gulfstream is headquartered.  The G500 set eight city-pair records in its class on its own, earlier this year; although the records have already been set, they have yet to be verified by the National Aeronautic Association.

Honeywell’s 20^th annual Turbine powered, Civilian helicopter purchase outlook at this year’s ABACE convention brought positive numbers to the Honeywell team. During this year’s convention Honeywell held booth number (H1115) and produced significant number of surveys that benefited their company greatly. The surveys displayed the increase of an order demands for customers of the Asian- Pacific as whole by an incredible 18% within the next 5 years. Honeywell experienced an increase a whole 1% from the received numbers from 2017s Outlook simulation.

Airbus Helicopters and Schiebel Camcopter have teamed up to create a newer way of connecting both unmanned and manned networks to work alongside one another.  According to both companies they are the first to develop what is known as the Manned Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) that enables its versatility to be at a “Level Five.” The project was sponsored by innovative companies such as Austrian Armaments and Defense Technology Agency.