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March 1, 2007
Calendar
March 1-3 Helicopter Association International (HAI) Heli-Expo, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla. Contact HAI, 703-683-4646 or visit www.rotor.com. 7-8 Avionics 2007, a conference organized by Simply Group Ltd., and Avionics magazine, Expo XXI...
March 1, 2007
Special Report: Securing Intellectual Property
Intellectual property (IP) is as important to avionics as avionics is to an aircraft. Properly securing, maintaining and policing intellectual property rights will help maximize a company’s ability to attract investment, protect its business advantage...
March 1, 2007
New Products
Digital Signal Processor Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, Leesburg, Va., unveiled conduction-cooled, rugged versions of its CHAMP-FX digital signal processor (DSP) 6U VME64x and VITA-41 engines. Also, Curtiss-Wright qualified the high performance...
March 1, 2007
Safety: Inertial System Drift
The most expensive failure of a twin Inertial Reference System (IRS) occurred on the first Ariane V rocket in 1996. Thirty-seven seconds after liftoff, a software fault caused an extreme attitude change, which tore the launch vehicle apart. Apart from...
February 1, 2007
Industry Scan
ATC Investment Dims Outlook The pace of air traffic control (ATC) modernization represents one of the risk factors compromising an otherwise rosy outlook for the U.S. aerospace industry, says the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA). Delivering AIA’s...
January 1, 2007
Scan
Lockheed Unveils ADS-B Team Systems integrator Lockheed Martin threw its hat into the ring for FAA’s coming requirement for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), unveiling a multidisciplinary team that includes Sensis Corp., Harris Corp...
January 1, 2007
New Products
Solid-State Relay Teledyne Relays, Hawthorne, Calif., unveiled the Series S60DC40 commercial DC solid-state relay for switching high-power DC loads. The device features the latest-generation Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET)...
December 1, 2006
Perspectives: Time for Change
How does that old saying go? The only thing that stays constant is change. This is true in commercial avionics, where we have seen a steady progression from analog to digital components. Change is evolutional or revolutionary. Evolutional change is a steady...
November 1, 2006
Safety: Slippery Swaps
Initially unnoticed by the flightcrew or air traffic control (ATC), an El Al B747–412 (4X–ELS), with 455 persons on board, slipped well below the ILS glideslope (G/S), while on finals to Heathrow on Jan. 10, 2006....
November 1, 2006
Product Focus: High-Speed 1553: Technology Advances Boost Performance
While faster processing, smaller packaging and software innovations have helped push the introduction of Mil-Std-1553 products with more capabilities, cost-effective methods of achieving breakthrough data rate increases while using the same data bus architecture are advancing....
November 1, 2006
ADS-B Builds Momentum, But Issues Remain
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) program for a nationwide network of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) ground stations was formally launched by Administrator Marion Blakey in early May. Since that time, agency officials have been...
November 1, 2006
Calendar
November 13-17 Wire Installation, Familiarization and Inspection Seminar, hosted at Boeing's facility in Long Beach, Calif. Phone 562-593-1971 or visit www.boeing.com/nosearch/seminars-services/index.html. 14-16 Aerospace Testing Expo North America, Anaheim...
October 1, 2006
New Products
Multi I/O Board Data Device Corp. (DDC) has unveiled a multiprotocol PMC card for Mil-Std-1553 and ARINC 429 data bus applications. The BU-655590F/M packages a wide array of functions, including up to four dual-redundant Mil-Std-1553 channels, 16 ARINC 429...
October 1, 2006
People
Bob Kramer Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Savi Technology, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary, has named Bob Kramer as senior vice president of marketing and strategic development. An 18-year employee of Lockheed, he is responsible for overseeing business relations...
October 1, 2006
Perspectives: Combining Safety, Security Certifications
Today's digital aircraft are large distributed computing systems. Each of these nodes is certified to perform its functions safely. To date, there is no formal mandate for FAA to include security issues in its system certifications. However, as...
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