Commercial

In-Trail, On-Time

Over the years, a large number of concepts to increase airspace and airport capacity and to smooth traffic flows have been proposed, but few of them have reached operational application. Some die…

Military

Reducing Risk on Joint Strike Fighter

The avionics suite of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will probably be the most extensively tested of any aviation electronics, with much of the work performed before systems fly on the…

Commercial

The Dreamliner, in Control

Using synergy developed with the avionics side of its parent company, Rockwell Collins’ Electromechanical Systems Division (EMS) is expecting to nearly double its business in the next five years, thanks in part…

Business & GA

Q&A: NLR: The Leading Edge of European Research

Jacco M. Hoekstra is head of the air transport division of the Nationaal Lucht-en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium (NLR), the National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands. In this capacity, he oversees 140 researchers engaged in…

Commercial

Product Focus: Flight Data Recorders

Interconnectivity of avionics, including flight data recorders (FDR), is of prime importance to aircraft operators because it offers rapid data transfer rates and significant time savings. Thanks to increased use of Ethernet…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Development Kit Acqiris, Monroe, N.Y., released its firmware development kit (FDK), which simplifies application development on the embedded field programmable gate array (FPGA) of its SC240/210 streamer analyzers and AC240/210 analyzers. The…

Military

Small Business Nabs E-2C Hawkeye Pact

Real-Time Innovations (RTI) said it won a $600,000 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by the Naval Air Systems (NAVAIR) Command to research upgrades to the Navy’s E-2C Hawkeye. RTI,…

Military

Honeywell Wins Air Force Contracts

Honeywell’s Defense and Space Electronic Systems won a $7.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for 74 embedded Global Positioning/Inertial Production Units on CH-47F, MH-47, H-1W and HH-60J helicopters and F/A-18,…