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10.01.2008		Cover Story: SVS Virtual Sight Lines Humans are visual creatures — if forced to give up one of our five senses, not many of us would choose to be blind. Living in a dark or blurry world is a scary thought, so we tend to pursue anything that enhances vision, from eyeglasses and binoculars...
09.01.2008		Product Focus: Test Equipment In one of the largest aircraft test equipment procurement contracts in recent memory, the U.S. Navy was in the process of writing a request for proposals (RFP) to replace the roughly 600 Consolidated Automated Support System (CASS) test systems in its...
08.01.2008		Sensor Sense Two new armed reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition platforms will enhance the situational awareness and lethality of U.S. Army aviation brigades by carrying the Common Sensor Payload (CSP). The General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-1C Sky...
07.01.2008		From Definition to Development Air Traffic Management (ATM) of Europe’s highly fragmented airspace for now is dis-integrated. The European Commission (EC) and Eurocontrol have a vision for a very different future. But their dream of a Single European Sky (SES) with just one or two...
06.01.2008		Joining the Battle The Army wants helicopter crews and ground troops to share real-time video and still imagery, text orders and situation reports, and graphical battle plans. The combat payoff could be dramatic. Boeing simulation studies show a networked Block III AH-64D...
05.01.2008		Spn Stands for Single-Pilot Operation When Switzerland’s Grob Aerospace launched its spn business jet at the 2005 Paris Air Show, one of the aircraft’s ground-breaking features was its adoption of Honeywell’s new Primus Apex avionic suite. Designed to combine the performance and...
04.01.2008		Cover Story: ‘Big Iron’ Capability 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...
03.01.2008		Europe’s Green Pursuit 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...
02.01.2008		Supplying The ‘Last Tactical Mile’ The roads in war torn Iraq and Afghanistan are some of the most treacherous thoroughfares in the world. Routine military convoy missions have quickly turned deadly in the flash of an improvised explosive device (IED). Used in roadside and suicide car...
01.01.2008		Cover Story: Outlook 2008: Growth Continues Industry fortunes can be fickle. Airlines once again are profitable. Airframers are experiencing record orders and healthy backlogs. Enabling technologies for safer, more precise and efficient operations are being implemented in Europe, Asia and North...
12.01.2007		Engineering Pipeline Under Pressure Avionics companies are preparing for what could be an engineering talent crunch in the coming years, as baby boomers retire and demand for qualified personnel jumps. Continuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, coupled with the robust business aviation...
11.01.2007		Cover Story: ADS-B On The Ground FAA’s NextGen program to modernize the National Airspace System (NAS) took a great leap forward in late August with the selection of an industry team led by ITT Corp. to provide the ground infrastructure of a nationwide Automatic Dependent...
10.01.2007		Cover Story: Hawkeye’s Long Vision Like many in their 40s, the E-2 Hawkeye program has learned a lot over the years, becoming smarter and better at what it does while realizing that time has taken its toll. But unlike other 40-somethings, the U.S. Navy’s flying radar program is...
09.01.2007		Cover Story: Before the Storm One expression we don’t see in newspapers these days, or hear on radio and TV, is "air pockets," those Bermuda Triangle-like potholes in the sky that airliners used to routinely fall into. What has changed is the almost universal adoption of...
08.01.2007		Cover Story: RNP on Approach Considered by some as the ultimate breakthrough allowing the transition from ground-based to aircraft-based navigation, Required Navigation Performance (RNP) has enjoyed a rather slow, decade-long evolution. But recent developments in the United States show...
07.01.2007		Counter MANPADS: Live-fire finale? After four years of test and development, the two systems competing to protect commercial aircraft from man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) will get a chance to prove themselves against live fire this fall. The Counter-MANPADS systems — Northrop...
06.01.2007		In-Trail, On-Time Over the years, a large number of concepts to increase airspace and airport capacity and to smooth traffic flows have been proposed, but few of them have reached operational application. Some die because they just aren’t practical; others are seen to be...
05.01.2007		New Sensors are Force Multipliers The global war on terrorism, shoulder-fired rockets and threats the military hasn’t even thought of yet are in part helping drive advances in sensor technologies. Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems are developing technologies...
04.01.2007		Multilateration: Radar’s Replacement? Multilateration sounds like something you did in high school math, but have long since forgotten. But no, you didn’t, and no, you haven’t. Multilateration, or MLat, is the latest thing coming down the pike in air traffic control technology, and...
03.01.2007		Miniature Air Vehicles Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that can be contained in a backpack or even in the palm of your hand promise to deliver new intelligence-gathering and surveillance capabilities from the platoon level down to the individual soldier. These miniature aircraft...
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