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| 04.01.2008 |
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Product Focus: Antennas
New, more powerful satellite constellations are allowing aircraft antenna manufacturers to build smaller but highly capable antennas for narrowbody and corporate aircraft. At the same time, these new antennas also bring with them design and manufacturing...
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| 03.01.2008 |
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Q&A: AMC And The Evolution of Avionics Maintenance
Axel Mueller, general manager with Lufthansa Technik in Tulsa, Okla., serves as chairman of the Avionics Maintenance Conference (AMC), an air-transport organization sponsored by the ARINC Industry Activities division. During his two years as chairman, Mueller...
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| 03.01.2008 |
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Product Focus: Displays
Consumer electronic influences and technological advances associated with the latest aircraft model types are spurring new display technologies in the cockpit. However, these advances, including 15-inch-displays and touch-screen technology, come with their...
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| 03.01.2008 |
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Explaining ARINC 818
The ARINC 818 "Avionics Digital Video Bus" standard was released in January 2007. Even before its official release, major programs by both Airbus (A400M military transport) and Boeing (787 Dreamliner) adopted the protocol for their critical video...
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| 03.01.2008 |
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Teeth of the Growler
Building airborne electronic attack (AEA) capability into the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter/attack aircraft posed packaging and integration challenges for prime contractor Boeing and AEA subsystem integrator Northrop Grumman. Compared to the...
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| 03.01.2008 |
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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...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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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...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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Avoiding Trouble Ahead
A ground-based reporting system using information from the nation’s network of Next-Generation (NEXRAD) Doppler radars can help pilots avoid turbulence by transmitting real-time data on clouds and storms. The system, designed by the National Center for...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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Applying SAAAR
In December 2005, FAA published Advisory Circular 90-101, "Approval Guidance for RNP Procedures with SAAAR (Special Aircraft and Aircrew Approval Required)." This AC provides guidance material for approvals to take advantage of the Required...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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Product Focus: Connectors
Few other components in aerospace have changed as little as connectors have over the years. However, the connector has been roused from its slumber by the introduction of new aircraft — Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, in particular — and by the...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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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...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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Outlook 2008: Avionics Test Market Outlook
The market for avionics Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) is alive and well. This is an exciting and dynamic marketplace for vendors in both the military and commercial segment. This article will provide an outlook of the market for 2008 and beyond, covering...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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Cabin Comfort On The A380
The first Airbus A380 to enter commercial service, delivered to Singapore Airlines last October some 18 months later than planned, was anticipated as much for its cabin interior as for the aircraft itself. At the handover in Toulouse, France, the airline...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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Product Focus: GPS
It’s not every year the avionics industry gets to introduce a new class of product that didn’t exist the prior year. That’s the enviable position that manufacturers of GPS equipment are in with the introduction of the first units capable of...
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| 12.01.2007 |
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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...
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| 12.01.2007 |
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Commercial: Technology Lightens Aviation’s ‘Footprint’
Record temperatures, melting glaciers and a score of increasingly dire scientific reports are sparking worldwide concern about climate change. And governments and industries are feeling the heat. The growing importance of the "green" issue was...
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| 12.01.2007 |
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The Art of Imitating Flight
Possibly more than in any other industry, simulation technology has found wide application in aviation, playing a role in avionics development and testing, airframe and engine analysis and every aspect of personnel training, from operating airport de-icing...
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| 12.01.2007 |
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Product Focus: Mil-Std-1553
It’s been about 18 months since the introduction of a new standard for high-bandwidth data bus networking based on Mil-Std-1553 technology. How it’s gone since then for what’s become known as "Extended" 1553 depends on whether you...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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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...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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Military EFBs
A good five years behind commercial aviation in embracing electronic flight bags (EFB), the military appears to be on the cusp of a revolution that will see the display technology become a common retrofit in cockpit upgrade programs for transport aircraft and...
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