ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: Airspace Anxiety

The timing was coincidental, but the warnings were similarly dire. A British government report issued in late October predicted catastrophic consequences for the world economy if global warming continues its course, absent…

ATM Modernization

Scan

Lockheed Unveils ADS-B Team Systems integrator Lockheed Martin threw its hat into the ring for FAA’s coming requirement for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), unveiling a multidisciplinary team that includes Sensis Corp., Harris…

Editor's Note

People

Emily Feliz Emily Feliz joined Avionics magazine, Rockville, Md., as managing editor. She will be responsible for overseeing the design and production of the magazine as well as assisting in the editing…

Editor's Note

Calendar

January 8-11 Aerospace Sciences Conference and Exhibition, Grand Sierra Resort Hotel, Reno, Nev. Contact the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, phone 703-264-7500 or visit www.aiaa.org. 22-24 Institute of Navigation (ION) National…

Business & GA

Outlook 2007

The forecasts are impressive. Despite trepidation last year over a cooling economy and spiraling oil prices, the corporate and air-transport aircraft sectors are on the ascent, and with them the potential for…

Commercial

A Happy Landing For LAAS?

Starting in the early 1990s, FAA launched a development program to produce a GPS-based replacement for the aging Instrument Landing System (ILS). The goal — to provide routine and precise satellite guidance…

Business & GA

Barco Displays Its Avionics Strength

A high-technology supplier to several different markets, Barco defines its avionics business as the liquid crystal displays it provides for aircraft cockpits. The company jealously guards the process by which it produces…

Business & GA

Q&A: Engine Support, Wirelessly

Honeywell introduced a remote diagnostic system intended to support its TFE731 engine base initially, but also eyed for remote monitoring of other aircraft systems. Dubbed the "Zing Intelligent Monitoring

Commercial

Product Focus: Data Acquisition

Among new systems that will debut on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an Enhanced Airborne Flight Recorder (EAFR) manufactured by Smiths Aerospace, the first such recorder complying with the new ARINC 767…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Solid-State Relay Teledyne Relays, Hawthorne, Calif., unveiled the Series S60DC40 commercial DC solid-state relay for switching high-power DC loads. The device features the latest-generation Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) technology…