The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) welcomed the European Union (EU)’s acceptance of Commercial Air Transport (CAT) using Single-Engine Turbine aero planes at night or in Instrument Meteorological Conditions (SET-IMC) in Europe. Here at ASAP Semi we deal with many international customers. Having knowledge of projects going on around the world are great for us so that we can stock our inventory to accommodate orders that might be placed.  We are very knowledgeable of which parts go on specific airplanes and if not we have services to inform us. Read more >>

On February 17 2017, there was an article posted on Intelligent Aerospace that talks about how Ball Aerospace uses Suomi NPP (National Polar Orbiting Partnership) satellite in order to provide weather data. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp was able to do this by winning a NASA contract that has a 5 year length that will support the operations for the NPP satellite. Read more >>

One new technology that has been a great to help customers or people interested an actual figure is the 3D printer. These printers can make an actual model of anything you can imagine, many people use these to show a mini version of what is going to be made. The creators are continuing to find ways to making the printers quicker on the printing process. Read more >>

Defense and Space are one of the best aerospace distributors and manufactures in the industry. They are always figuring out was to diversify themselves from the competitor and that is what always them to be at the top of the market. Recently, they contracted Neptec Design Group and are beginning to design a radar laser that’s gives an extra-terrestrial imaging. They are going to install these in the pilot, which will bring the landing navigation system to another level. There have been some prototypes that have been started already and things are going as planned. Not only will this laser going to help the navigation system, but this new Lidar technology will help guide autonomous mobile platforms for terrestrial. Read more >>

The Boeing 747 is an iconic plane that has been part of history for the past decades, a great plane; queen of the skies with outstanding engineering and technology that made traveling fun, easy and comfortable. United airlines; an iconic airlines has adopted the iconic 747 for the longest time and it’s been part of the airline’s history for almost half a century with their first 747 flight that took off from California and landed in Hawaii to mark the journey that will go on for almost 50 years. However, everything comes to an end, even great things come to an end, and now United Airlines has declared to stop their fleet of Boeing 747 by the end of the year 2017. Initially they planned the end to be in the year 2018 but that didn’t hold, so now the queen has to step down much sooner. Read more >>