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August 1, 2009
Enter Superjet
If Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC) can keep up the pace on a challenging test and certification program, it will begin deliveries of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 to Armenian airline Armavia and launch customer Aeroflot by December. With the advent of the...
August 1, 2009
Product Focus: Data Acquisition
The proliferation of requirements to monitor unsafe conditions, and to monitor engine performance and aircraft fuel efficiencies are driving demand for new data acquisition systems within civil and military aviation. To satisfy these requests, manufacturers...
August 1, 2009
New Products
Hermetic Sealed Connectors ITT Interconnect Solutions released a hermetically sealed connector with a lightweight aluminum shell for low-pressure water immersion or fording applications. Meeting all Mil-Std-810 and IP67 water immersion requirements, the KJAYA...
August 1, 2009
Aviationtoday.com: In Flux in France
The deal making has officially concluded; the order books are closed. The upshot of this year’s Paris Air Show: a shockingly small number of big sales, with airlines too worried by recession and too deeply in the red to pony up billions of dollars for...
July 1, 2009
Editor’s Note
It’s auspicious for NextGen that new FAA Administrator J. Randolph "Randy" Babbitt chose to make his first public speech outside of Congress at the RTCA Symposium in June. Babbitt is not a newcomer to the NextGen effort — prior to being...
July 1, 2009
Letters
Spreading Wealth Envy I am not going to belabor our obvious political differences, but please stop misquoting Rush Limbaugh (Editor’s Note, April 2009, page 6). I was listening to that show — one more time for the left wing propaganda machine, the...
July 1, 2009
Industry Scan
Pilot Report: Bendix/King AV80R Portable Multifunction Display The day finally arrived and here it was — a new Bendix/King AV80R portable MFD. The unit came with a 4GB SD card, which contained an extensive aviation and automotive database as well as...
July 1, 2009
People
Jay LaFoy L-3 Avionics Systems, of Grand Rapids, Mich., named Jay LaFoy president of the company. LaFoy will oversee all aspects of the L-3 Avionics Systems business. LaFoy has more than 25 years of aviation industry experience in the areas of operations...
July 1, 2009
Calendar
July 22-25 Airborne Law Enforcement Association (ALEA) Annual Convention, Savannah, Ga. Contact ALEA, phone 301-631-2406 or visit www.alea.org. 27-Aug. 2 EAA AirVenture 2009, Wittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wis. Visit www.airventure.org. August 10-13...
July 1, 2009
Airline Broadband
Airline passengers want the ability to send e-mail and access the Internet in flight, and U.S. airlines are responding to that demand, rolling out a series of in-flight broadband trials. For passengers, especially business travelers, the attraction is the...
July 1, 2009
Product Focus: GPS WAAS
With manufacturers only recently releasing their first-generation GPS WAAS products, operators are just now getting their hands around current capabilities of the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). However, the imminent expansion of WAAS-like capabilities...
July 1, 2009
New Products
Battery Tester Concorde Battery Corp., West Covina, Calif., introduced the BC-5000 Battery Capacity Tester (Concorde P/N 4163). The company said the tester, which weighs 10 pounds and measures 12 inches long, 9 inches wide and 10 inches high, has been market...
July 1, 2009
Aviationtoday.com
Required Navigation Performance (RNP) is an underlying capability of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). You might think, because NextGen seems to be languishing in bureaucratic limbo, RNP is of no practical use today. Think again. RNP...
July 1, 2009
Perspectives: Mapping Turbulence
Let’s stop flying into turbulence to find it! Let’s avoid beverage spills in our laps and flight attendants bouncing around the cabin. There exists a unique form of GPS processing with subsequent mathematical procedures to produce a national map...
June 1, 2009
Editor’s Note: Task Force Meets
The RTCA task force assigned the unenviable task of recommending "mid-term" NextGen operational capabilities to FAA, as in those capabilities that can be achieved by 2018, wasn’t given a lot of rope to work with. Conceived in January and...
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