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03.01.2008		Editor’s Note: System of Systems Network centric warfare is hard to get your arms around. There’s a lot happening out there, and living the life of a middle-aged urban professional doesn’t often expose you to the intricacies of electronic battle. For the past couple of years...
02.01.2008		Editor’s Note: Two Safety Studies A study that came over the transom recently speaks to improving safety on airline flight decks. Unfortunately another study, or at least the beginnings of one, that could add substantially to what is known about aviation safety has been disowned by its...
01.01.2008		Editor’s Note: A Crisis Averted This is a column about a crisis averted. I’m referring to the Thanksgiving travel crush, which was preceded by grim prognostications of delayed and cancelled flights and a level of media coverage you’d expect for an approaching hurricane. Coming...
12.01.2007		Editor’s Note: Assuring Information When it comes to clandestine pursuits like cyber security, I generally assume that someone in the depths of the Pentagon or the National Security Agency has it covered. But to hear John Grimes tell it, there is a very thin line indeed separating the "bad...
11.01.2007		Editor’s Note: The Final Frontier In this day and age, when passenger amenities, or the lack thereof, distinguish one airline from the next, the Airbus A380 represents the final frontier in cabin customization. Recent interviews with Airbus executives and a tour of the airframer’s...
10.01.2007		Editor’s Note: 13 Unlucky Hours Having logged a fair number of air miles for business and pleasure over the past four decades, I’ve by and large managed to avoid the kinds of airport fiascoes you see on the 6:30 news. But with the maddening crowd of 750 million annual passengers...
09.01.2007		Editor’s Note: Building The Brand Brad Foreman, the former Marine Corps pilot who heads Thales Aerospace Activities in the United States, sees the Thales logo displayed when he passes through Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, and he’d like a similar welcome in the United States...
08.01.2007		Editor’s Note: UAVs Are Rising They were not to be seen flying overhead, like the graceful, giant Airbus A380 or the versatile Bell/Agusta 609 tiltrotor, but UAVs nevertheless played a prominent role this year at the Paris Air Show. From the AeroVironment Wasp, neatly packaged in a...
07.01.2007		Editor’s Note: An Epic Transition By the time you read this, progress toward the Next Generation Air Transportation System will be at or near some significant waypoints. The multiagency Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) facilitating NextGen planned to issue an Enterprise...
06.01.2007		Editor’s Note: AMC’s Jury of Peers I have two shot glasses, courtesy of Honeywell, dating from my previous trips to the Avionics Maintenance Conference (AMC) — Phoenix in 1996 and Anchorage in 1997. After a sojourn of nearly a decade from the aviation industry, I was pleased to return to...
05.01.2007		Editor’s Note: Europe United My favorite textbook from college, "A Diplomatic History of the American People," is interspersed with political cartoons from our combative past that variously depicted Europeans as pompous, petulant, fractious and quarrelsome. Today, however, our...
04.01.2007		Editor’s Note: Avionics Acquisitions What’s happening in the avionics industry? Just two months into 2007 and already $5.5 billion in acquisitions had been closed or announced. Aircraft components supplier TransDigm Group purchased Aviation Technologies for $430 million. Esterline Corp...
03.01.2007		Editor’s Note: The Sky’s The Limit Very Light Jets (VLJs) are remarkable aircraft. Some 10 days after his company made its first customer delivery, Jack Harrington, vice president of business affairs with Eclipse Aviation, sang the praises of the Eclipse 500 VLJ to an FAA technology conference...
02.01.2007		Editor's Note: Software Security I've been talking to software engineers a lot lately, and what they’re talking a lot about is software security. With the progression to network-centric operations underway in the U.S. military, and with it the promise of a powerful, collaborative...
01.01.2007		Editor's Note: Airspace Anxiety The timing was coincidental, but the warnings were similarly dire. A British government report issued in late October predicted catastrophic consequences for the world economy if global warming continues its course, absent urgent efforts to reduce greenhouse...
12.01.2006		Editor's Note: Onward And Upward It is with great pleasure that I introduce myself as the new editor of Avionics magazine. Actually, this is a return engagement for me. I served as managing editor of this fine magazine in the mid-to-late 1990s, at a time when Free Flight was the rage, the...
11.01.2006		Editor's Note: E-Loran Time? The need for a backup to GPS as a source of position, navigation and timing (PNT) information has been obvious for years. GPS is key to critical infrastructures and is deeply embedded in aviation's navigation and next-generation surveillance systems. But GPS...
10.01.2006		Editor's Note: Synthetic Vision: The Next Step Synthetic vision technology, as this issue of Avionics Magazine points out, is transitioning from general to corporate aviation. It's only a matter of time before bizjet operators usher the technology into everyday use. What will they get for the investment...
10.01.2006		New Products Multi I/O Board Data Device Corp. (DDC) has unveiled a multiprotocol PMC card for Mil-Std-1553 and ARINC 429 data bus applications. The BU-655590F/M packages a wide array of functions, including up to four dual-redundant Mil-Std-1553 channels, 16 ARINC 429...
09.01.2006		Editor's Note: ADS-B and EFBs This month's issue of Avionics Magazine reports on a range of commercial, business and military aviation topics -- from area navigation (RNAV) and automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) to electronic flight bag (EFB) and helmet mounted display...
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