LAKE FOREST, California – 30 April 2008 –Aeroflot, one of the world’s oldest and largest airline in Russia serving 96 cities in 49 countries, selects Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic) to supply eX2 on ten (10) A330 aircraft with anticipated deliveries starting in 2008. Panasonic eX2 provides digital in-flight entertainment (IFE) system to the airline. This flexible IFE system delivers a personalized in-flight experience featuring full in-seat video on demand with a standard-based design that allows airlines to integrate many Panasonic applications. “Aeroflot keeps investing in service enhancement. In particular, we emphasize the state-of-the-art efficient in-flight entertainment solutions. In this relation Panasonic eX2 is the best choice,” said Alexey Sidorov, Commercial Director at Aeroflot.

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Hatfield, Hertfordshire….BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has signed lease agreements with Indonesian carrier P.T. Riau Airlines for two Avro RJ100s. Due for delivery in August, the two aircraft (msn E3243 and E3265) are the airline’s first jet equipment and will complement an existing fleet of five 50-seat Fokker 50 turboprops. Riau Airlines has been operating since 2003 and is based at Pekanbaru, capital of the Riau Province in Sumatra. The airline operates a busy scheduled network linking major centres in Sumatra to smaller regional destinations and islands. It also operates a scheduled route into Malaysia, serving Malacca. In addition, it operates a number of Public Service Obligation (PSO) routes and has a thriving charter business servicing the oil and gas sector in the region.

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FAIRFAX, Va., April 30, 2008 — SRA International, Inc. (NYSE: SRX), a leading provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions to government organizations, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Era Corporation, a privately held provider of advanced surveillance technologies for the air traffic management, airport operations, military and security markets. Era is a pioneer and leading supplier of next-generation surveillance and flight tracking solutions. The company has nearly 300 employees and develops multilateration, Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and other technologies that deliver high-performance, high-reliability surveillance solutions to more than 100 customers in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South America and Asia. The company is headquartered in Reston, Va. with production facilities and research & development centers in the U.S. and Czech Republic.

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Zurich, April 29, 2008 - SR Technics has announced a change at the top in its communications team. Regula Weyermann, Senior Vice President Corporate & Marketing Communications, will leave the company at the end of May to take on a new challenge in another industry. She will be succeeded by Marco Imboden, who is currently the company’s Vice President Marketing Communications. Regula Weyermann joined SR Technics as Senior Vice President Corporate Communications and a member of Group Executive Management in July 2006 to provide communications expertise for the company’s then-planned IPO. Following SR Technics’ sale to its present owners in autumn 2006, she assumed additional responsibility for groupwide marketing communications. She will leave the company at the end of May to take on a new challenge in another industry.

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El Segundo, CA – April 29, 2008 – Teledyne Controls, a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE: TDY), announced today that Aeroflot Russian Airlines has selected Teledyne’s Class 2 Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) system for installation on its fleet of A320 and B767, encompassing a total of 56 aircraft. Teledyne Controls’ EFB will be instrumental in enabling Aeroflot’s crewmembers to access crucial information on the flight deck and leverage Jeppesen’s Navigational solution in all phases of flight. Teledyne will supply all EFB hardware components, along with the associated aircraft installation kits, including certification. The EFB deployment is expected to start at the end of Q2 2008.

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Newport News, VA—ICG, the aviation industry’s leading developer and manufacturer of satellite-based global voice and data communications for both cabin and flight deck operations, announced today at the Aircraft Electronics Association’s 51st Annual International Convention & Trade Show, that it is donating $2,000 to the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) Foundation to fund its annual Brian Bennett Scholarship. The contribution was presented by ICG Vice President of Product Sales Jeff Saucedo to PAMA Board Chairman Clark Gordon and new PAMA President John Casker during a ceremony at ICG’s exhibit.

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LAKE FOREST, California – 23 April 2008 – Panasonic Avionics Corporation (Panasonic) today announced the award by Boeing Commercial Airplanes to provide Cabin Services System (CSS) on every Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental airplane. In addition to this new contract, Panasonic also supplies CSS to Boeing for the 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Panasonic is the world’s leading supplier of in-flight entertainment (IFE) and communication systems. The company’s best-in-class solutions, supported by professional maintenance services, fully integrates with the cabin enabling airlines to deliver the ultimate travel experiences with a rich variety of entertainment choices, resulting in improved quality communication systems and solutions, reduced time-to-market and lower overall costs.

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GENEVA – 22 April 2008 – Finland’s flag-carrier Finnair, which carries 9 million passengers annually, achieved IT cost savings of 30% as a result of migrating to an Internet Protocol (IP)-based network infrastructure with SITA two years ago and today announced a three-year renewal of its agreement with SITA’s Communications Services Business Unit. Kari Hanninen, Director, ICT Architectures Corporate Information Management, Finnair, said: “Over the last two years we have doubled our network bandwidth and achieved cost-savings of 30%. IP is the underlying communication technology that enables many new applications.

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The aeronautical message handling system, contracted by the end of 2007, already passed FAT and SAT. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation and Meteorology (DGCAM) of Oman went operational with COMSOFT’s AMHS and AIS technology in record time. karlsruhe, germany, April 2008 – Once again the high level of professionalism in the German ATC/ATM specialist’s performance became apparent after completion of the project in record time. Reasons for the tough demands were continuously increasing traffic volumes and pursuit to be optimally prepared for the substantial changes in the provision of Aeronautical Fixed Services by AMHS.

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Amsterdam, April 22, 2008 – EADS today announced the acquisition of Californiabased PlantCML, a leading provider of emergency response solutions, from Golden Gate Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity fund, for approximately $350 million. Based on the good underlying profitability of PlantCML, the acquisition is earning per share (EPS) accretive (on a pre fair value amortization) in the first year. Leveraging the synergies between the companies is expected to create additional value in the following years. The acquisition was made through EADS’ U.S. operating subsidiary, EADS North America, and will become part of the North America business portfolio.

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (April 22, 2008) - Virgin Blue has selected Rockwell Collins to provide its EP™-1000CT image generator and Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) projector-based visual system for its Boeing 777 simulator. “We’re thrilled to be working with Virgin Blue on their flight simulator programs,” said Ken Schreder, vice president and general manager, Simulation and Training Solutions for Rockwell Collins. “With our EP-1000CT/LCoS visual system, Virgin Blue will benefit from realistic, high resolution imagery on a system that offers lower cost of ownership over the life cycle of the system.”

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Airways New Zealand hosted the 12th Thales Users Group (TUG) conference in Christchurch from 16th to 20th March 2008. The event has been organised every 18 months since 1991 by customers of Thales’s air traffic management activities. Over the years, the TUG conference has proved to be a great opportunity for the worldwide civil aviation authority to share their operational experiences and set the basis for discussions regarding technology progress, service and system functionality, and harmonisation.

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (April 21, 2008) - Rockwell Collins has received National Security Agency (NSA) Type 1 certification on its new Janus cryptographic engine. Janus is a Cryptographic Modernization Initiative (CMI)-compliant device that enables the secure transfer of information by providing the high-speed encryption and decryption of digital voice and data applications. Given NSA Type 1 certification, it can now be used in new or replacement Department of Defense (DoD) products and programs requiring the safeguarding of classified or sensitive information. This next generation programmable crypto will also address the DoD’s Crypto Modernization efforts to support future secure communication, navigation and data link capabilities for the warfighter.

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Evendale, Ohio – March 20, 2008 - The GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team has successfully completed a high-altitude afterburner testing program at the US Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Center in Tennessee, including common exhaust hardware for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft. The F136 engine is a 40,000+ lb. thrust, combat engine that will be available to power all variants of the F-35 for the US military and eight partner nations. All test objectives were reached as planned using an engine configured with Conventional Takeoff and Landing (CTOL) and Short Takeoff Vertical Landing (STOVL) common exhaust systems. The engine configuration included a production-size fan and functional augmentor allowing several run periods to full afterburner operation.

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Skycooler has announced the appointment of Airworld Services Limited UK as repair contractor for its SKYcooler temperature control containers at UK airports London Heathrow, London Gatwick and Manchester. Skycoolers CEO Jorgen Veslov says “As part of our strategy to globally support our cooltainer leasing operations we are pleased to extend our repair facility range to the UK. Airworld are the leading ULD repair operator in the United Kingdom, and have established a reputation second to none for provision of quality ULD repair and logistics services. We have now contracted repair services in the USA, Canada, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Italy. Germany, the Netherlands and France and have plans to extend this coverage in the Middle East and Asia throughout this year.”

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AMSTERDAM/GENEVA, 17 April 2008 – SITA, the IT provider which tracks passenger baggage worldwide for the air transport industry, today launched a major report which shows how baggage handling can be improved at the world’s busiest airports through the better use of technology as the industry now handles around 2.25 billion pieces of checked baggage every year. Francesco Violante, SITA CEO, introducing the 4th annual SITA Baggage Report, said: “Once again, the past year has seen an increase in the amount of baggage mishandled worldwide. It also brings fresh hope, however, in the shape of new initiatives such as IATA’s Baggage Improvement Programme.

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CAIRO, Egypt, April 2008 – Early this month the Egyptian air navigation service provider NANSC signed a contract in Cairo with the German ATC/ATM supplier COMSOFT for the provision of an AFTN/CIDIN/AMHS solution. Preparations are already underway as the contractor seeks for an expeditious cut-over. The communication centre in Cairo is considered the central aeronautical communications hub connecting the European, North-African and Middle East region. The North-African ANSP ordered COMSOFT’s superior message handling system AIDA-NG as a gateway between AFTN, CIDIN and AMHS networks in full compliance with the relevant ICAO standards. AMHS User Agents implemented by COMSOFT’s terminal solution CADAS and ATN directory servers will round-off the installation at Cairo’s control centre.

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At this year’s major ATC conference and exhibition, the ATC Global 2008 in Amsterdam, the German company COMSOFT and NATS, the UK’s air navigation service provider, signed a contract to further deepen and enhance their long-term cooperation in the ATC/ATM business. karlsruhe, germany, April 2008 – In the course of the annual ATC event in The Netherlands, NATS, (formerly National Air Traffic Services) of the UK (NATS) and German ATC/ATM expert COMSOFT signed a contract to manifest and further enforce their excelling business relationship. Both parties can look back on a long and successful track record of corporate activities which started more than 15 years ago with the implementation of the country-wide radar data network UK-RADNET, one of the most sophisticated surveillance infrastructures in the world, still serving the users to their satisfaction.

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AMSTERDAM – 16 April 2008 – The majority of Russian international air passengers will be checked in using SITA systems following an announcement today that SITA will take charge of master systems integration at the new Sheremetyevo-3 terminal which will double the Moscow airport’s capacity to 25 million in 2009. This means that SITA is now contracted to provide state-of-the-art check-in systems at the top three Russian international airports as a wave of IT modernisation sweeps the country’s airport sector. Today’s announcement from JSC Terminal, a subsidiary of Aeroflot and the operators of Shermetyevo Terminal 3, concerns the first master systems integration deal for an IT provider at a Russian airport. Over 100 airlines will rely on SITA’s AirportConnect Open for both agent and self-service kiosk check-in, and RFID baggage management systems, for efficient passenger management. SITA will also build and transfer a Resource Management System, an Airport Operations Data Base and ensure integration with third party systems.

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Duluth, Georgia - Flight Training Services International (FTSI) is pleased to announce the formation of a new consulting group, Jackson Group Consultants, LLC. Jackson Group Consultants (JGC) was formed to address the overwhelming growth projections in the aviation industry. Utilizing the experience and skills of the leadership team, JGC focuses on performing comprehensive research and development, and providing solutions based on a thorough needs assessment. With a global outlook, JGC partners with industry leaders and visionaries who seek to achieve results in the industry.

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Leuven, Belgium – April 15, 2008 – LMS, the engineering innovation company, introduced its extended solution for Ground Vibration Testing at the Aerospace Testing, Design & Manufacturing Expo in Munich, Germany. LMS offers an integrated solution and advanced engineering services to help aerospace manufacturers achieve shorter testing times while increasing test observability and overall quality for Ground Vibration Testing (GVT). Based on extensive cooperation with leading aircraft manufacturers from all over the world, LMS has developed a unique approach combining simulation and physical testing to accelerate and optimize the complete testing cycle – from test preparation and modal testing to modal analysis, numerical model correlation and model updating.

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Lincoln, MA –April 15, 2008 – Avidyne Corporation today announced that Robbin L. “Rob” Higby has joined the company as vice president of sales and marketing. In his new role, Higby will oversee growth of the company’s global sales and marketing organizations. He will be responsible for expanding Avidyne’s relationships with core OEM partners, as well as its global network of distributors and dealers who deliver the company’s avionics solutions to pilots worldwide. An experienced technology sales and marketing professional, Higby brings more than a decade of leadership experience to Avidyne. Most recently, he ran EqualLogic, Inc.’s Channel Sales organization, where his role was pivotal in defining and rolling out the firm’s highly regarded Channel Sales model for technology resellers across the globe. EqualLogic was purchased by Dell on January 29 of this year for $1.4 billion, the largest cash transaction of any venture-backed technology company. Prior to his position in Channel Sales, he served as Director of Product Marketing at EqualLogic.

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Microturbo continues to pursue its diversification strategy by expanding its product range to the TR-3, a new turbojet engine which develops 30 daN of thrust. With the TR-3, Microturbo now offers a thrust range of 30 to 600 daN. The key features of the TR-3 are a streamlined architecture with a centrifugal compressor, a straight-flow combustor and a single-stage axial turbine. Although it shares a number of key technological features with other Microturbo turbojet engines, the TR‑3 also integrates its own state-of-the-art technology, including not only a high-speed alternator (100,000 rpm) and a pyrotechnic igniter cartridge for virtually instant starting, but also innovative shaft bearings.

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Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the European Space Agency to supply the Sentinel-3 Earth observation satellite for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) program. Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a 305 million euro contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to supply the Sentinel-3 Earth observation satellite for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) program. This contract covers the first satellite in the Sentinel-3 mission, dedicated to oceanography and monitoring of land vegetation. The contract, worth 305 million euros, has been signed today in Paris by Volker Liebig, ESA Director of Earth Observation Programs and Pascale Sourisse, President and CEO of Thales Alenia Space, in presence of Dominique Bussereau, French Secretary of State for Transport in the Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Land Management, Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, the European Commission as well as the French Ministry of research and Higher Education.

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Ethiopian Airlines and Thales today announced that they have signed a contract for the Thales TopSeries In-flight Entertainment system to be installed on the airlineÂ’s future fleet of 10 Boeing 787. The system is based on the proven Thales TopSeries platform and will include advanced technologies that allow for increased performance and capability. At every seat, Ethiopian Airlines will offer wide-screen display sizes of 15.4″ in business class and 9″ in economy. Large 15.4″ wall-mount monitor screens will also be part of the cabin environment. Passengers will navigate through on-demand entertainment using the new Thales passenger control unit, which has a stylish appearance and slim design. “Our airline recognizes that the Thales IFE system is the best choice for the B787. Its proven capabilities were key to our decision to select Thales,” said Mr. Tewolde G. Mariam, Chief Operating Officer of Ethiopian Airlines.

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