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May 1, 2008
Canada’s Bombardier is preparing to introduce two new aircraft to the commercial airline industry over the next five years. The airframer will complete its regional jet family with the soon-to-fly CRJ1000 NextGen and make its first foray into the realm of mainline airliners with the planned CSeries 110/130. The CRJ1000 NextGen, designed to carry 86 to 100 passengers, is scheduled to fly later this...May 1, 2008
Our air transportation system is becoming increasingly stressed. Fuel costs are rising; we are facing more safety, security and environmental protection requirements. But we also have a variety of technologies to help in the solution. The market is demanding us to accommodate a mixed-capable fleet. Yet we need to maintain civil aviation as a profitable business. Clearly, something needs to be done, and...May 1, 2008
Light emitting diode technology is increasingly changing cockpit and aircraft lighting systems Cockpit lighting technology has traditionally moved at a glacial pace compared to other systems on the aircraft, namely computer or semiconductor technologies that experience generational improvements every six months. However, that old axiom has been turned on its ear in recent years with the widespread...May 1, 2008
For each of the past two years that I served as chairman of an avionics conference in Amsterdam, two prominent advocates of mainstreaming unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in civil airspace challenged, even cajoled the audience to get involved. The tag team of Peter van Blyenburgh, president of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, and John S. Walker, co-chairman of RTCA Special Committee 203, makes for an...May 1, 2008
Systems Development Improved On Tranche 2 Typhoon Improved systems development tools and processes have helped shorten the development lifecycle of the Tranche 2 Eurofighter Typhoon, which is scheduled for deliveries to partner nations beginning this summer. "We flew the first Tranche 2 aircraft last Nov. 1," recalled Mark Salvin, head of avionics systems engineering with the Eurofighter...May 1, 2008
Software Development Environment AdaCore, of New York and Paris, released the 12th annual edition of its GNAT Pro Ada software development environment, available in 44 configurations on 79 different operating systems, including versions of Windows, Linux and Solaris. The company released the latest version at Avionics Expo 2008 in Amsterdam in March. Features of the GNAT Pro 6.1.1 include...May 1, 2008
Joseph B. Smith Alto Aviation, Leominster, Mass., named Joseph B. Smith senior quality manager. Smith has more than 25 years experience in manufacturing, wire harness cable, electromechanical devices and sub assemblies. Alto Aviation manufactures aircraft cabin audio systems. Most recently, Smith was with the Temp Flex Cable Co. He attended numerous avionics courses while serving with the United States...May 1, 2008
May 5-7 Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center, Bethesda, Md. Visit http://i-cns.org. 5-8 Regional Airline Association (RAA) Annual Convention, Indiana Convention Center & RCA Dome, Indianapolis. Contact RAA, phone 202-367-1170 or visit www.raa.org. 13-14 RTCA 2008 Annual Symposium, Westfields Marriott, Dulles, Va...April 1, 2008
Many turbine pilots get the willies just thinking about flying small airplanes, especially in anything less than blue skies. Reliability and redundancy are two reasons for that. But small aircraft owners can narrow the safety gap between themselves and their jet-flying colleagues, even without swapping that Lycoming six-banger for a Pratt & Whitney turboprop. Avionics upgrades top the list of...April 1, 2008
On the 10 million-square-foot campus of Spirit AeroSystems’ main assembly plant in Wichita, Kan., small, wireless radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags monitor in real time the location of 30,000 aircraft parts during their transformation from sheet metal to Boeing 737 fuselage. Assembly cycle times and the effort spent locating lost parts there have been substantially reduced. At the Airbus...April 1, 2008
New, more powerful satellite constellations are allowing aircraft antenna manufacturers to build smaller but highly capable antennas for narrowbody and corporate aircraft. At the same time, these new antennas also bring with them design and manufacturing challenges. "The biggest thing that’s happened in our industry is the development of smaller, lighter, lower profile fuselage-mounted antennas...April 1, 2008
Is Singapore really all it seems? I was well aware of this island-nation’s reputation as a prosperous, orderly place before traveling there in February for what was billed as the first Singapore Airshow under new management. You’ll recall that the original show organizer, U.K.-based Reed Exhibitions, fell out with the government and decamped for Hong Kong with its Asian Aerospace event. In its...April 1, 2008
As I have read and listened to the discussion of airline profitability and air-traffic control (ATC) problems, punctuated by bankruptcies, delays, congestion, meltdowns, etc., I have concluded the problem, and therefore the solution, lies outside the current industry focus. Please allow me to explain. For more than 30 years, in spite of their best efforts, the network airlines and the world’s ATC...April 1, 2008
Green Is The Color du Jour At Singapore Air Show Solar Impulse and the Airbus A380, two aircraft with roughly the same wingspan — 80 meters (262 feet) — but little else in common, were recognized at the Singapore Airshow for their present and future contributions to improving the environment. A day before the official show opening, two seemingly strange bedfellows — the International Air...April 1, 2008
ARINC 825 PMC Module TechSAT, of Poing, Germany, in cooperation with Innovative Control Systems, based in Phoenix, Stock Flight Systems and Wetzel Technology released the A825-PMC, described as the first commercially available ARINC 825 (CAN) PMC module. In October 2007, ARINC endorsed the new ARINC 825 standard for Controller Area Network (CAN) usage in future aircraft. The A825-PMC module comes with four...April 1, 2008
Alan Caslavka Alan Caslavka was named vice president and general manager of Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Solutions for Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In this role, Caslavka is responsible for developing solutions, to include advanced communications and mission system applications as well as technologies encompassing electronic warfare, information assurance and networking. Since...April 1, 2008
April 6-9 Army Aviation Association of America (AAAA) Convention, National Harbor, Md. Contact AAAA, phone 203-268-2450 or visit www.quad-a.org. 14-17 Avionics Maintenance Conference, Tulsa Marriott Southern Hills, Tulsa, Okla. Contact organizer ARINC, phone 410-266-4000 or visit www.arinc.com. 23-26 Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) Annual Convention, Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center...March 1, 2008
A Scandinavian Airline System (SAS) Boeing 737 descends noiselessly to the threshold of Arlanda Airport at Stockholm, Sweden, having just completed a descent with engines at idle or nearly so. This is not considered remarkable; rather it is one of several hundred "green" arrivals that SAS has now made at Arlanda. In more than 650 continuous descent arrival (CDA) approaches made by last year, the...March 1, 2008
Axel Mueller, general manager with Lufthansa Technik in Tulsa, Okla., serves as chairman of the Avionics Maintenance Conference (AMC), an air-transport organization sponsored by the ARINC Industry Activities division. During his two years as chairman, Mueller has overseen dramatic change, as AMC transitioned to the new business model of a self-sustaining membership organization and evolved with changes in...March 1, 2008
Consumer electronic influences and technological advances associated with the latest aircraft model types are spurring new display technologies in the cockpit. However, these advances, including 15-inch-displays and touch-screen technology, come with their own set of technical integration and durability challenges. The 15-inch cockpit displays in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner — four across the front and...
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