Business & GAAvionics System Design: Are You Cape-Worthy? An interesting aspect of working in a company is learning from a coworker something great that you never would have thought of yourself, but still needed to know. Especially delightful is when,…
MilitaryThe Modernized 'Herc' It first flew nearly a half century ago, in 1954, yet its new cockpit could make the pilots of modern fighters and bizjets near green with envy. Lockheed Martin has transformed the…
ATM ModernizationDeployable Flight Incident Recorders: Avoiding, Not Just Surviving, a Crash For rescue forces in search of a downed airliner, signals from an emergency locator transmitter (ELT) can help save lives. For air accident investigators, memories in flight data and cockpit voice recorders…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: Aircraft for Everyone Here’s a thought that may send a shiver down the spines of seasoned air-transport and corporate pilots–especially if they also regularly witness the chaos on the Los Angeles freeway or Washington Beltway…
ATM ModernizationFeedback Omission of the miniQAR I am writing to inform you of an omission in the referenced article (Avionics Magazine, April 2000, page 34). Although the article’s main focus is on FDRs and…
ATM ModernizationIs Europe Ready for RVSM? For some airlines, preparation for Europe’s new reduced vertical separation minima (RVSM) represents simply extending the use of equipment and procedures they now employ while flying over the North Atlantic. But for…
Business & GAThe Real Reason Selective Availability Was Turned Off It isn’t too often that the President of the United States announces a change in the signal format of a public navigation aid. Especially when, as he pointed out, his announcement was…
ATM ModernizationA Partnership with Portent Airways Corp. of New Zealand Ltd. (ANZ) and Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management (LMATM) recently signed an agreement that may well have greater significance than its stated purpose of establishing a 10-year…
ATM ModernizationPeople Eclipse Aviation: Finnoff, Harrington, VPs Eclipse Aviation Corp. appointed Chris Finnoff vice president of sales, and Jack Harrington, vice president of business affairs. Finnoff was formerly president and CEO of Pilatus Business…
ATM ModernizationNew Products DC to AC Inverters Endicott Research Group Inc. introduced the DMB Series of closed-loop DC to AC inverters for backlighting large liquid crystal displays (LCDs) with up to four cold cathode fluorescent…