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| 10.01.2005 |
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F-35 Integrated Sensor Suite: Lethal Combination
At A Glance The targeting sensors in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are designed to assure that the pilot concentrates on the combat environment, not on the onboard systems. The prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, and a major supplier, Northrop Grumman, have...
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| 03.01.2005 |
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Reducing Mode Errors Through Design
Technology has allowed avionics manufacturers to build more features into smaller pieces of equipment. While this enables sophisticated systems for smaller aircraft, it raises the level of interface complexity and increases the potential for certain types of...
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| 01.01.2005 |
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Outlook 2005: Reasons for Optimism?
The aviation industry needs a new phrase. "Cautious optimism" has become shopworn. Yet, over the years, it has been apropos in describing the industry's economic outlook. This year is no exception. There are reasons for optimism. Defense spending is...
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| 01.01.2004 |
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Outlook 2004: Ready for a Resurgence?
Will we soon see the overlap of a resurgent civil aviation market on a strong military aviation market? Such doubly good fortune could occur. Signs of recovery and optimism are emerging. For several years the airlines, especially the U.S. carriers since 9/11...
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| 09.01.2003 |
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JSF: Integrated Avionics Par Excellence
What must a 21st-century tactical aircraft incorporate to satisfy the needs of the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps and international customers seeking a multimission air vehicle? The short answer is plenty of onboard and offboard data collection...
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| 08.01.2003 |
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Europe’s Answer: UAVs in Controlled Airspace
Europe’s experience of operating unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) within its controlled airspace is considerable. Predators, Hunters and other UAVs operating during the conflicts in Kosovo and Bosnia, for example, were successfully sequenced amidst...
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| 07.01.2003 |
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Airbus A400M
Airbus Military’s A400M airlifter program – finally launched after years of waiting, wrangling and political drama – will go head to head with the C-130J and stretched C-130J-30 for export orders. Will the A400M’s new avionics systems...
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| 06.01.2003 |
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Typhoon: Europe’s Finest
Many believe today’s manned combat aircraft will someday be dinosaurs, succeeded by unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). If so, the Eurofighter Typhoon, currently entering service, represents Europe’s ultimate effort in man-machine integration for aerial...
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| 05.01.2003 |
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Cirrus SR22: Large Capability in a Small Package
When Duluth, Minn.-based Cirrus Design planned the cockpit for its piston-powered SR22, it sought a panel design that would bring familiarity and comfort to the general aviation (GA) pilot. In short, it sought a "BMW-like" appearance, with a low...
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| 04.01.2003 |
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How Fractional Ownership Impacts Avionics Support
Time was when a clear distinction existed between air transport and corporate aircraft operations. The airliners were (and still are) the workhorses that regularly carted passengers and cargo around, while the corporate aircraft were the thoroughbreds, used...
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| 01.01.2003 |
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Outlook 2003: Perseverance and Change
It probably is appropriate that this industry forecast is being written several weeks after Halloween. As we look down the shadowy lane of 2003, a year predicted to be economically flat for the civil aviation market, we see light glimmering in distant 2004...
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| 05.01.2002 |
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Horizon's Push for RNP
Horizon Air, a regional carrier in the northwestern United States, flies in a challenging environment and, therefore, has special needs. It flies into airports in mountainous terrain, and it seeks lower approach minima for these destinations. Some of...
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| 01.01.2002 |
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Special Report: Outlook 2002: Battered, Beaten But Still Seeing Growth
Not that long ago, the air transport market faced an economic downturn but was bolstered by the strong sales of commuter/regional jets. The business aircraft market was riding the crest of the economic boom of the 1990s, and the private aircraft market was...
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| 01.01.2002 |
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Two Options in Bizjets Upgrades
At the 1999 National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) conference and exhibition, Honeywell unveiled its Primus Epic CDS/R (Control Display System/Retrofit). It extended to corporate operators of older aircraft the latest avionics technology that the...
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| 11.01.2001 |
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More Than One Way to Modernize a P-3
At this year’s P-3 International Operators Support Conference, held Oct. 22-25 in Atlanta, the theme will be "Modernization – Look to the Past, The Way to the Future." Modernization is an appropriate theme for two P-3 operators, the U.S...
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| 05.01.2001 |
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JSF Down the Wire
Competition for the multiservice, multinational Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is tightening between Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Small wonder. The JSF program is cited as one of the largest fighter production programs ever: up to 5,000 aircraft worth $300...
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| 04.01.2001 |
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Runway Incursions: The Threat on the Ground
The world’s worst aviation accident occurred in 1977, almost a quarter of a century ago, at Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands. Five hundred and eighty-three persons were killed when a fully laden Boeing 747 collided during its takeoff run with...
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| 03.01.2001 |
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Systems That Permit Everyone to Fly
When Orville and Wilbur Wright began developing a vehicle that could fly, people no doubt laughed and shook their heads. "Poppycock. Man wasn’t meant to fly," they probably proclaimed. But the brothers weren’t daunted, and today we fly...
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| 12.01.2000 |
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Cockpit Upgrade to the Rescue
Little more than three years ago, Lt. Cmdr. (now Commander) Mark Butt was the first person to research the possibility of acquiring a much needed avionics upgrade for the aging U.S. Coast Guard HH-65A Dolphin short-range rescue and recovery helicopter. The...
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| 11.01.2000 |
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EGPWS: Look What It Can Do Now
It’s more than 30 years old, and yet it keeps evolving, gaining new capabilities. Ground proximity warning system (GPWS) technology has come a long way since it was first developed by Don Bateman, AlliedSignal’s chief engineer of Flight Safety...
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