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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Northrop Grumman Corporation opened its new AC-208 Training Center of Excellence™ at Meacham Airport in Fort Worth, Texas that’s designed to provide partner nations with instructional classroom activities and initial aircrew and maintenance training on Northrop Grumman’s modified AC-208 Eliminator™ aircraft. The 5,000 square-foot classroom is part of Northrop Grumman’s... 24 September 2018
Pacific Simulators sold its ProJet PS4 Flight Training Device (FTD) to the CEA training center that will open in Buenos Aires, Argentina this year. The simulation center will be the first to provide FTD’s to pilots in the airline market in Argentina and surrounding countries. The ProJet PS4.5 FTD is... 24 September 2018
Alsim installed an ALX flight simulator at Fly Coop flight school, in Budapest, Hungary. The device simulates a Single Engine Piston/Multi Engine Piston medium jet, and is EASA and FAA-qualified FNPT II MCC. It supplies a complete training cycle where ab initio students with no experience can be trained to... 24 September 2018
ACS Flight Training in Perth, Scotland acquired two Piper PA-28 diesel aircraft that increases the number of Piper PA-28 aircraft in its fleet of training and self hire aircraft. Louise Ewart, director at ACS Flight Training says the aircraft have glass cockpits and include Garmin G430 and G500 systems. They... 24 September 2018
The new Johns Hopkins All Children’s Research and Education Building opened in St. Petersburg, Florida that houses the hospital’s graduate medical education and simulation programs, institutes, an expanded biorepository and a new team of fundamental scientists who will seek to understand the origins of diseases and how to prevent them. 21 September 2018
Intermountain Healthcare opened its 120,000 square-foot Kem C. Gardner Intermountain Transformation Center at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah. It is home to multiple institutes and programs the company says are transforming the way medical care is provided to achieve the highest clinical quality at the lowest sustainable cost. Intermountain’s... 21 September 2018
ELITE Simulation Solutions released a new version of its ELITE XTS Home flight-training software program for pilots and several new hardware products. The ELITE XTS software features a variety of single and multi-engine aircraft, a 4K instrument panel resolution in widescreen format, Global Positioning System (GPS) options for GNS and... 21 September 2018
Field Aerospace began the flight deck modernization of the first of 178 U.S. Air Force (USAF) T-1A trainer aircraft that will bring the USAF’s fleet into compliance with Federal Aviation Administration Airspace System mandates and address increasing obsolescence problems. Field Aerospace’s $155.7-million contract with the USAF includes upgrading the turnkey... 21 September 2018
Cubic Corporation’s Cubic Global Defense business division won a contract from Lockheed Martin to deliver its latest-generation Air Combat Training System (ACTS) for the F-35 Lightning II. Cubic is scheduled to deliver more than 500 F-35 Training Subsystems over the next four years as part of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 production... 21 September 2018
The U.S. Army Central Readiness Training Center at Camp Buehring, Kuwait held an event using an Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Tactical Proficiency Trainer (IEWTPT) to teach its soldiers about suicide prevention techniques. The training used a virtual-reality scenario in which participants communicated with a virtual avatar of a soldier who... 20 September 2018
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