CommercialAvionics for a Colossus Cockpit commonality has been the cornerstone for cockpit design in Airbus aircraft, and the gargantuan A3XX will be no exception. This, despite the fact that the European manufacturer plans to implement new…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: Seeking the Delicate Balance Where is the delicate balance? The digitized cockpit could grant air crewmen virtually an endless amount of flight-critical data. But such a capacity fosters the concern of creating confusion among pilots from…
Business & GALuxury Joins Speed and Flexibility Enter the cabin of a Bombardier Challenger and one would expect a plush interior: leather seats, galley, soft lighting, and in-flight entertainment (IFE). And it’s no different with Flight Services Group’s (FSG’s)…
Business & GAUAE's Modernized Mirage At the Dubai Air Show last November, the Gulf Aircraft Maintenance Co. (GAMCO) announced that it had won a contract from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force and Air Defence to…
ATM ModernizationNew Mexico's Technological Finds Microscopic machines, satellite science, high-speed semiconductors, and voice operated, 3-D air traffic imagery. This is the kind of wizardry currently spewing from New Mexico, and at Mach speeds. New Mexico has the…
ATM ModernizationPeople Ball Aerospace: Crawford, Managing Director Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. appointed Walter Crawford as its new managing director of Global Communications and Video Solutions (GCVS), a business unit of the Commercial Products…
ATM ModernizationNew Products New Full-Feature 1553 Cards Ballard Technology Inc. has introduced a new family of PC cards (PCMCIA) for Mil-Std-1553 databus interfacing. The eight CM1553-3 models are now available in a small, portable PC…
ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: Needless Nakedness in the Face of Fire If a pilot’s greatest fear is that of in-flight fire, U.S. airline pilots are facing this frightening specter an average of three times a day. The realization of fire on board always…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan HGS on the Challenger 604 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration recently approved the Flight Dynamics head-up guidance system (HGS) on the Bombardier Canadair Challenger 604. The STC follows some three years of…
ATM ModernizationAvionics System Design: Insurance As a Design Parameter In the fall and winter of 1999, something happened quietly behind the scenes in the aviation business that may have changed the nature of avionics design and support permanently, but with very…