Business & GAProduct Focus: Cockpit Switches Pilots no doubt are oblivious to the effort that goes into the making of a lowly cockpit switch. But considerable human factors expertise is required to design a switch's shape, size, position…
ATM ModernizationFBW for the S-92 While offshore support operator Petroleum Helicopters Inc. (PHI) takes delivery this month of the first production Sikorsky S-92 at Heli-Expo in Las Vegas, engineers at BAE Systems' Johnson City, N.Y., facility are…
Business & GASafety: From Typo to Tailstrike Incorrect weight and speed data can be potentially deadly, especially when the airplane's computer accepts erroneous information without an error check–rather like a word processor without a spell checker. What a difference…
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