ATM ModernizationNav Canada Towers–Big and Small Of all the ground facilities in aviation’s total infrastructure, few are more interesting than airport control towers. Whether serving smaller communities or large metroplexes, airport towers provide one of the best close-up…
ATM ModernizationSystem Design: Evaporating Data Recently, we have seen evidence in our shop of a disturbing fault trend that merits wider discussion in the avionics community. My coworkers and I happen to be involved in a great…
Editor's NoteCalendar February 19-20 Asian Airports 2003, Sheraton Towers Hotel, Singapore. Contact the Asia Business Forum, phone +65 6536 8676, fax +65 6536 4356 or visit www.abf-asia.com. 19-21 The Engineer in Transition to Management,…
Business & GAThe All-Digital, All-Weather Helicopter The European rotorcraft manufacturer, Eurocopter, has employed the first all-digital helicopter for a program it calls the All-Weather Helicopter (AWH). Expanding the capabilities of a highly sophisticated EC-155B1, Eurocopter is evaluating the…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: The Drumbeat Grows Louder The drumbeat for more efficient air traffic management (ATM) and use of airspace grows louder and increasingly zealous. The final report from the Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry…
ATM ModernizationFeedback Lost from the Start Thanks for your editorial and list of acronyms in the December 2002 Avionics Magazine (page 27). As a young engineer in 1967, I attended a meeting at The…
Editor's NoteNew Products IP Cores Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Condor Engineering now offers its CORE-1553 and CORE-MMSI intellectual property (IP) cores for programmable logic devices. CORE-1553 is a downloadable encoder/decoder/processing core that can provide one or…
ATM ModernizationPeople Korry Electronics Co.: Houston, President Frank Houston has been named president of Seattle-based Korry Electronics, succeeding Alan Cornell, who is now head of European operations for Korry’s parent company, Esterline Technologies. Houston…
ATM ModernizationPerspectives: Accelerating Free Flight Imagine never again experiencing a flight delay. Imagine flying from point A to point B via the most direct route possible. Impossible? Not really. We all know that the technology to enable…
Business & GAProduct Focus: Inmarsat Swift64 Expands Inmarsat’s 11-month-old Swift64 high-speed data service, based on the Inmarsat-3 constellation, has carved out a niche in government and corporate aviation. As of December, more than 100 terminals apparently had been sold,…