Business & GA Editor’s Note: The Sky’s The Limit Very Light Jets (VLJs) are remarkable aircraft. Some 10 days after his company made its first customer delivery, Jack Harrington, vice president of business affairs…
ATM Modernization Special Report: Securing Intellectual Property Intellectual property (IP) is as important to avionics as avionics is to an aircraft. Properly securing, maintaining and policing intellectual property rights will help maximize…
Business & GA New Products Digital Signal Processor Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, Leesburg, Va., unveiled conduction-cooled, rugged versions of its CHAMP-FX digital signal processor (DSP) 6U VME64x and VITA-41 engines.…
ATM Modernization Safety: Inertial System Drift The most expensive failure of a twin Inertial Reference System (IRS) occurred on the first Ariane V rocket in 1996. Thirty-seven seconds after liftoff, a…
ATM Modernization Perspectives: eLORAN’s Shortcomings While I share the concern about possible backups to automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) in the event of GPS local or larger outages, I don’t believe…
Business & GA Avionics Magazine Tech Report: Time-Triggered Fieldbus Technologies: Reducing system complexity, lifecycle costs and aircraft weight Time-triggered fieldbuses, such as Time-Triggered Protocol (TTP) and FlexRay communication protocol, have the potential to solve many systems integration and concurrent engineering issues in the…