Amanda Towner
Amanda Towner writes news articles for the Halldale Group’s website as well as CAT and MST Magazines. She studied English and Creative Writing at Stetson University, where she became a Sullivan Scholar for her work. Her writing covers several topics including journalism and storytelling, and is featured in several publications.
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After the overwhelming success of the Student Education and Careers in Aviation (SECA) at the 2018 World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) in Orlando, Florida, SECA will be returning as part of WATS 2019 on May 2 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Florida. Over 170 Florida students... 5 December 2018
BAA Training, a subsidiary of Avia Solutions Group, a global aviation holding, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Henan Civil Aviation Development and Investment Company (HNCA), which announced the start of cooperation for a Henan-based joint venture aviation training company in the People's Republic of China (PRC). As the... 5 December 2018
The DiSTI Corporation is pleased to announce that they have been selected by HAVELSAN to develop glass cockpits for Turkish Airlines’ latest flight simulators. Under the agreement, DiSTI Professional Services will leverage GL Studio to develop high-fidelity instrumentation clusters for the Airbus A320 aircraft and 737 MAX cockpits for HAVELSAN... 5 December 2018
Indra, a global consulting and technology company and simulation manufacturer, is working together with iAltitude, a company specializing in high altitude sports training, in the development of a new flight trainer for the Spanish Air Force, the first of its kind in the world that incorporates a hypoxia system that... 5 December 2018
Benefiting from the latest advances in non-invasive sensors and monitoring devices, HuMans, Thales’s Human Performance Monitoring solution is a new methodology and pedagogical tool that estimates pilots’ mental workload in real time and in an objective manner. The tool is integrated into Thales’s renowned Reality H Full Flight Simulator: the... 5 December 2018
ST Engineering and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a strategic growth partnership. The partnership aims to build new engines of growth by creating globally competitive industry ecosystems in Singapore. EDB aims to nurture and grow large Singapore enterprises that will drive economic... 4 December 2018
Lockheed Martin announced a $1.5-million contribution to the University of Central Florida (UCF) for the development of a new cyber innovation lab that will foster the next generation of cyber talent. The Lockheed Martin Cyber Innovation Lab ensures that UCF remains on the forefront of educating and empowering the nation's... 4 December 2018
Indra will launch two new Research and Development projects within the Civil UAVs to boost–through the use of unmanned systems–the transformation of two completely different fields: intelligent logistics 4.0, and the training of pilots through advanced flight simulators. Within Indra’s concept of Smart Logistic 4.0, the company will use aerial... 4 December 2018
ST Engineering and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a strategic growth partnership. The partnership aims to build new engines of growth by creating globally competitive industry ecosystems in Singapore. EDB aims to nurture and grow large Singapore enterprises that will drive economic... 4 December 2018
QuantaDyn Corporation announced it will deliver a QFires Advanced JTAC Training System (AJTS) to be installed at the Slovenian Armed Forces Air Ground Operations School (AGOS) at Cerklje ob Krki Airbase. The AJTS provides a high fidelity, fully-immersive environment critical for training JTACs and JFOs. The training system supports Terminal... 4 December 2018
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