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...Hotline Continued From Page 88 The new orders this year follow an impres- sive 2017 in which customers purchased 16 Boeing Business Jets. Two of the new orders this year are for the BBJ MAX airplane, adding to a backlog of 19 airplanes and making the BBJ MAX one of the selling business jetliners in history. GA-ASI Kicks Up Desert Dust with First MQ-25 Engine Test General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. — one of three companies going after a multibillion-dollar U.S. Navy contract to produce a carrier-based refueling aircraft — said it successfully tested the jet engine that will be at the heart of its entry. The project is significant because the Navy is asking for something new — an unmanned aircraft that will take off from, and land on, an aircraft carrier deck. Poway, CA-based GA-ASI said earlier in the year that it chose the PW815 model en- gine from Pratt & Whitney. GA-ASI completed an engine test successfully on April 5, on a test stand using the inlet and exhaust structures it will use on the aircraft. The company publicly disclosed details on May 31, including a video of the test which ap- peared to be in California’s high desert. Teams from Boeing Co. and Lockheed Mar- tin Corp. are also competing for the MQ-25 contract. Northrop Grumman left the compe- tition. The Navy is expected to award the MQ-25 contract in the coming months. Wheel Pros Acquires Amcor In- dustries Wheel Pros, a portfolio company of Santa Monica, CA-based private equity firm Clear- lake Capital, announced June 4 the acquisi- tion Amcor Industries Inc. of Vernon, CA. Deal terms were undisclosed. Denver-based Wheel Pros is a marketer and distributor of aftermarket automotive wheels, performance and accessories. Amcor designs, manufactures, and sells branded lug nuts and other automotive ac- cessories. The company also does business as Gorilla Automotive Products Teledyne Technologies Wins Contract A subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Inc. has won the second phase of a $47 million contract from the European Space Agency to provide sensors used aboard a spacecraft. Teledyne e2V already completed the first phase of the contract by building components, and now will make the visible light image sensors used aboard the Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars, or PLATO, mis- sion spacecraft. The sensors can detect minute changes in the apparent brightness of stars, orbited by planets. “Our reliable and high-performance tech- nology remains at the very forefront of space imaging and the team are very proud to be providing (the space agency) with a technology which enables this exciting PLATO mission to search for new planets,” said Giuseppe Borghi, vice president of business development at Teledyne e2v Teledyne Technologies, in Thousand Oaks, CA, acquired Teledyne e2v, a manufacturer of image sensors, radio frequency subsystems and semiconductors in a deal last year. Las Vegas Company Receives Tax Abatements to Grow Company Inside the Pictographics print shop, a set of realistic miniature figures are displayed on a table. They only stand a few inches tall, but the 3D-printed portraits are ex- traordinarily detailed, from the print on their clothes to the shading on their hands. Craig Miller plans to make Pictographics the world’s premier 3D print company. Known for digitally dying textiles, the Las Vegas company is planning to expand into the manufacturing industry. It currently has four machines and plans to own 15 to 30 within the next two years. The Governor’s Office of Economic Devel- opment approved about $1.1 million in tax abatements for Pictographics on Thursday. The company plans to make a capital invest- ment of $17.7 million. Miller said the printers allow the company to produce different molds, jigs and fixtures for a variety of manufacturing industries. “There isn’t a single manufacturing in- dustry that will not need our services,” he said.