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| 11.01.2007 |
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Q&A: Toward A Global MRO
Paul Soubry Jr. was named in August to head the aviation services companies Standard Aero and Landmark Aviation, which have been merged under the ownership of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) of United Arab Emirates. Soubry previously was president of...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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Product Focus: Wire and Cable
Wire and cable products are tasked with providing electricity and high-speed data transmissions to a variety of components throughout the cabin and the cockpit. Companies are responding to growing customer demands for faster speeds and lighter weights and...
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| 10.01.2007 |
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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...
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| 10.01.2007 |
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Superjet Nears Flight
Fast approaching a first flight currently scheduled for December, the Sukhoi Superjet 100 is barely a year away from its inaugural delivery to launch customer Aeroflot in November 2008. The development, production and testing efforts are ramping up...
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Airframer Advances Surveillance Techniques
While ADS-B is the latest catch phrase in air-traffic management, it is not all that new. Many airliners flying throughout Europe already have some Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) capabilities, and official certification of ADS-B...
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| 10.01.2007 |
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Q&A: Thales Partners, Acquires, Expands
As senior vice president, aerospace, for the Thales Group, Francois Quentin heads one of six divisions of the growing, $16 billion aerospace, defense and security concern based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris. A graduate of the ENS Telecom engineering...
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| 10.01.2007 |
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Product Focus: Embedded Software Focused On Code ‘Correctness,’ Security
Increasingly software-intensive, avionics stand to benefit from an emphasis on code verification of software used in embedded systems and the emergence of more robust systems that run flight-critical and other applications. Today, avionics software...
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| 09.01.2007 |
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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...
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| 09.01.2007 |
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A Herculean Upgrade
Like Hercules, its mythical namesake, the C-130 airlifter is powerful and versatile. Capable of operating from rough, dirt air strips, the four-engine turboprop has been used to ferry troops into war zones, fight forest fires and deliver relief supplies into...
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| 09.01.2007 |
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Cockpit Comebacks
With the current backlog for new aircraft extending to more than a year’s wait, more business cases are being made to retrofit avionics into legacy aircraft. Cockpit display retrofits, featuring all-digital avionics, are putting legacy aircraft on par...
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| 09.01.2007 |
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Q&A: AEEC Reorganizes, Looks To The Future
Dennis Zvacek is manager of Avionics Engineering with American Airlines, and serves as chairman of AEEC, the ARINC conference formerly called the Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee. Zvacek first put his love of airplanes to work as an instrument...
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| 09.01.2007 |
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Product Focus: ATE
The automatic test equipment industry has entered what some ATE engineers say is a new golden age. With a plethora of new civil and military aircraft being developed, an imperative to transition legacy software programs to new testers, and an annual growth...
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| 08.01.2007 |
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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...
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| 08.01.2007 |
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Commercial: Engine Prognostics
From sensors to software, enhanced elements in turbine engine health monitoring and management systems (EHMS) are well worth their Krugerrand weight for providing faster, more detailed engine lifetime prediction. In the "time is money" canon by...
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| 08.01.2007 |
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Military: Legacy Systems, New Life
Advances in targeting pods and the flexibility of fighter aircraft to do more than drop bombs have given the U.S. military a unique capability to gather and disseminate real-time data on everything from enemy troop movements to urban areas of operation...
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| 08.01.2007 |
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Q&A: Avionics Upgrades, Airbus Style
Pierre Magro was nominated head of the avionics product line within Airbus Customer Services in 2005. He is responsible for the production, quality and scheduling of all design, technical solutions and supply chain aspects related to upgrade service...
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| 08.01.2007 |
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Product Focus: In-Flight Entertainment
Starting this summer, a spate of cellular and voice products are slated to enter the market, further transforming the aircraft cabin into a mobile office, telephone booth and living room. Onboard phone services are not new — satellite phones debuted on...
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| 07.01.2007 |
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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...
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| 07.01.2007 |
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Glassed-In
It’s hard to believe, but in August, glass cockpits in production civil aircraft will have been in use for a quarter of a century. On Aug. 19, 1982, I and other aviation journalists flew from Seattle to Chicago on the first Boeing 767 delivery. (Its...
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| 07.01.2007 |
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Military: Airborne, Networked Radio
As the U.S. military moved out of the shadows of the Cold War and into the global war on terror, it became apparent that new tactics and technologies would be needed to prevail against an adversary that doesn’t adhere to traditional combat roles. As...
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