http://www.aviationtoday.com Aviation Today en-us 2009 Fri, 3 Jul 2009 23:48:45 EDT 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 quote was: "They didn’t give Bush a... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categories/military/Letters_33023.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT 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 plenty of spare room for personal multimedia files... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categories/military/Industry-Scan_33024.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT 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, manufacturing and MRO. He joined L-3 Avionics Systems... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categories/military/People_33025.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT 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 Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categories/military/Calendar_33026.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT With the first flight of the Boeing P-8A Poseidon test aircraft in April, the U.S. Navy moved closer to a modernized patrol fleet ready for net-centric warfare in open ocean and cluttered coastal environments. Aircraft T2, the mission system flight-test aircraft, first flew June 5. Flight testing with the... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categories/military/Poseidon-On-Patrol_33028.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT 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 tested and approved for use by various aviation... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categories/military/New-Products_33031.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT 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 nominated as administrator, he was due to chair... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categories/commercial/Editors-Note_33022.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT 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 ability to work in flight as if never leaving the... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categories/commercial/Airline-Broadband_33029.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT 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 to Europe through the European Geostationary... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categories/commercial/Product-Focus-GPS-WAAS_33030.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT 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 already is making a big difference in commercial... http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/categories/commercial/Aviationtoday-com_33032.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT