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| 02.01.2003 |
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Editor's Note: The Drumbeat Grows Louder
The drumbeat for more efficient air traffic management (ATM) and use of airspace grows louder and increasingly zealous. The final report from the Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry states there should be a "national priority" to...
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| 01.01.2003 |
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Editor's Note: Industry, Magazine Transformations
In our annual outlook story (page 24), we describe an aviation industry in transition. Air travel is becoming more point-to-point, less hub-and-spoke. A wider range of aircraft types, including ultralight jets and highly advanced personal craft, is emerging...
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| 12.01.2002 |
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AFE: (Acronyms Forever)
What happens when you are in an industry that involves aerospace, computers and the military? For one thing, when you read industry literature, you become inundated with acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations. I’m not sure why this is so. Perhaps it is...
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| 11.01.2002 |
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Editor's Note: The Coveted Business Traveler
The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) show was particularly interesting this year, not because it indicated strong growth in corporate aviation (it didn’t), nor because it spotlighted more new technology than usual. What made this...
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| 10.01.2002 |
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Editor's Note: The Snowball Effect
A snowball effect is taking place in the air traffic management arena. It first became apparent about two years ago, when Boeing announced its new Air Traffic Management division. And it picked up significant momentum when, during this year’s...
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| 09.01.2002 |
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Editor's Note: Consequence of a Tragedy
Some air accidents have more long-term impact on the aviation industry than others. The July 1 midair collision of the DHL Boeing 757-200 and the Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 trijet near the German/Swiss border is an accident in which the impact is sure...
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| 08.01.2002 |
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Editor's Note: Unremitting UWB Issue
Once again the issue of ultra wideband (UWB) interference to avionics and other safety-of-life systems rears its controversial head. For more than a year, we’ve covered the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) ruling to allow the...
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| 07.01.2002 |
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Editor's Note: Tomorrow's Navaid Mix
What a difference a Volpe National Transportation Systems Center study makes. When this U.S. government organization submitted its study of GPS vulnerabilities to the Department of Transportation (DoT) in early September 2001–followed immediately by the...
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| 04.01.2002 |
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Editor's Note: Boeing –– Misunderstood?
Everyone knows Boeing manufactures airplanes. Many know, as well, that for the sake of diversification, it also provides other products and services, from satellites to broadband cabin communications to integrated military electronics. All of this activity...
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| 03.01.2002 |
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Editor's Note: A Fateful First Assignment
In this issue of Avionics Magazine, we introduce a new contributing editor, Harry Kraemer. He is an instructor pilot with turbine experience and instrument and multiengine ratings. Harry also is enrolled in two degree programs at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical...
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| 01.01.2002 |
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Editor's Note: The Truly Electric Aircraft
We enter 2002 with bittersweet feelings. This is the year prior to the 100th anniversary of powered flight and the year after the worst 12 months in commercial aviation history. In our "Outlook" coverage in this issue, we make frequent reference to...
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| 12.01.2001 |
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Editor's Note: Loran-C: Comeback Kid?
Enthusiasm filled the air at the International Loran Association’s (ILA’s) 30th annual convention and technical symposium in October. The recently released Volpe Center study of Global Positioning System (GPS) vulnerability (see page 27) created a...
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| 11.01.2001 |
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Editor's Note: The Ripple Effect of Sept. 11
The tragic terrorist attack on Sept. 11 of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon delivered a body blow to civil aviation. U.S. airlines have lost millions of dollars in revenue, and although the U.S. government will provide a multibillion-dollar relief...
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| 10.01.2001 |
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Editor's Note: A Tale of Two Airports
With deference to Charles Dickens, we present in this issue an aerospace version of his A Tale of Two Cities. Actually, we feature two airports, which serve cities with much in common. Memphis and Milan both are major industrial/commercial centers with...
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| 09.01.2001 |
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Editor's Note: Pilots Not Needed
Pardon this rather seditious inquiry, but on how many missions do we really need pilots? They probably are needed on most missions–for now. But that may change soon. At the flight line of this year’s Paris Airshow, one saw the familiar array of...
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| 08.01.2001 |
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Editor's Note: Plans to Improve ATM
THAT today’s technology can advance to benefit the individual much faster than it can to resolve a far-reaching problem that involves the coordinated efforts of many persons doing different tasks is, no doubt, obvious. It became even more obvious to me...
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| 07.01.2001 |
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Editor's Note: We Explain the Technology
OUR MISSION WAS TO explain the technology." That is what motivated technical writer Len Buckwalter to launch Avionics Magazine 25 years ago. And that remains the magazine's mission today. In this issue, we rather quietly celebrate Avionics Magazine's...
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| 06.01.2001 |
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Editor's Note: The Issue of Equivalency
Equivalency – the quality of being "corresponding or virtually identical in effect or function," according to Webster’s Dictionary–is hardly a new term in aviation. It has been applied to many aircraft parts, systems and...
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| 05.01.2001 |
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Editor's Note: The UWB Can of Worms
The issue of ultra-wide-band (UWB) technology’s possible interference with the Global Positioning System (GPS) signal has become nothing short of a can of worms. We’ve followed this issue intently for several months (see September 2000, page 4...
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| 04.01.2001 |
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Editor's Note: Cynics and the FAA's ATO
Former President Clinton’s Dec. 7, 2000 executive order to establish a performance-based air traffic control (ATC) entity, called the Air Traffic Organization (ATO), has drawn its share of cynicism. The order "sounds like another proposal that will...
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