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AMC Delegates Hear Appeal, Finish Agenda After grinding through 20 discussion topics on its opening day, the 58th annual Avionics Maintenance Conference (AMC) picked up speed and completed all 233 items presented…

Business & GA

Editor’s Note: AMC’s Jury of Peers

I have two shot glasses, courtesy of Honeywell, dating from my previous trips to the Avionics Maintenance Conference (AMC) — Phoenix in 1996 and Anchorage in 1997. After a sojourn of nearly…

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…