Business & GA

Avionics System Design: Designing with LEDs

Incandescent lamps have almost vanished from many new avionics designs. Now high-efficiency light emitting diodes (LEDs), especially in white, have become inexpensive and readily available. LEDs are widely used for backlighting pushbuttons,…

ATM Modernization

ADS-B for Australia's Outback

If you think development activity of the automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) takes place only in the United States, think again. There is, in fact, an ADS-B program being launched on the opposite…

Business & GA

Tackling Turbulence

Turbulence, the often violent and irregular motion of air currents, is an unavoidable flight hazard. But the day may soon arrive when turbulence no longer takes air crews by surprise. And this…

ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: Plans to Improve ATM

THAT today’s technology can advance to benefit the individual much faster than it can to resolve a far-reaching problem that involves the coordinated efforts of many persons doing different tasks is, no…

ATM Modernization

Feedback

Narrowband vs. Broadband As little as two years ago, in-flight e-mail seemed a far-fetched concept. But today, it’s up and running, flying on airlines like Air Canada and Singapore Airlines, thanks to…

ATM Modernization

People

NATS: James, General Manager, ATS Steve James leaves his post of civil air attaché for the British Embassy in the United States to become general manager, air traffic service, at London Heathrow…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Antennas

Phase arrayed, blade, whip, internal, external, trailing wire, collapsible, invisible, multispectrum, electronic scan, tunable, high gain, low gain, stealthy and multifunctional: all are descriptions of antenna types or attributes. All antennae (the…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Custom Battery Packs Atlantic Components (Atcom) of Woburn, Mass., now offers custom manufactured battery packs that can be made to solve space and design requirements or multiple power source requirements. The battery…

ATM Modernization

Safety in Avionics: Cross-Wired Controls

A Lufthansa A320 came within less than two feet and a few seconds of crashing during takeoff on a planned flight from Frankfurt to Paris. Preliminary reports indicate that maintenance performed on…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

Airbus Buys into Tenzing Tenzing Communications announced at the Paris Air Show that Airbus Industrie has purchased a 30% chunk of the in-flight communications company as part of a deal to offer…