Business & GA

Wireless Cabin Security

After locked cockpit doors were mandated and some airlines decided to install cabin surveillance systems, as well, Sun Country Airlines chose to explore a further step. With FAA funding from the Enhanced…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

May 16-17 Military Embedded Electronics and Computing Conference (MEECC), Hyatt Regency Long Beach, Calif. Sponsored by the VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA). Contact Ray Alderman, VITA, phone 480-837-7486, e-mail exec@vita.com or visit…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Connectors: Saga Continues

In our August 2004 issue we reported that the saga surrounding the establishment of a fiber optic connector standard "has reached a climatic decision point." It has. But the saga continues. And…

ATM Modernization

Eclipse 500: Implications of Integration for VLJs

It's interesting--indeed, paradoxical--that while some members of the aviation industry will, during the next 12 months, be celebrating the arrival of glass cockpits in the coming very light jets, or VLJs, other…

Business & GA

Editor's Note: Avionics Syndrome: An EFB Inhibitor?

If an electrical device is operated in the cockpit, it must be complex, certified and expensive, right? Well, not necessarily. And the inability to think beyond that bias probably has inhibited the…

Commercial

Getting a Handle on COTS Obsolescence

In the mid-1990s the U.S. military began to use more commercial off-the-shelf, or COTS, products. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) hoped that COTS would slash the cost and reduce the time…

Business & GA

New Products

Virtual Tools Sporty's Pilot Shop, Batavia, Ohio, now offers Virtual Airspace and Virtual Airport computer-based tutorials. The CD-ROM programs use computer animation to turn 2D information into 3D, fly-through videos. Visit www.sportys.com.…

Business & GA

People

Eggleton Luxell Technologies Inc., Toronto, Ontario, has appointed Art Eggleton to its board of directors. Eggleton has had a 30-year career in Canadian government, serving as Toronto's mayor for 11 years, as…

Commercial

Perspectives: Conductive Adhesive Avionics Challenges

Electrically conductive adhesive (ECA) materials offer the electronics industry an alternative to the tin-lead solder now used for connecting display driver chips, memory chips and other devices to circuit boards. But before…