Business & GA

Editor’s Note: Hotels And Bizjets

I was comparing notes with my brother the other day about the sorry state of the economy. He’s an executive at a luxury resort in Florida. Nice place, to say the least.…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

Congress Resumes FAA Reauthorization Effort Long-awaited FAA reauthorization legislation that provides $70 billion to the agency over four years through fiscal 2012, including funding for the NextGen air-traffic control modernization, was progressing…

ATM Modernization

People

Rusty Roberts Rusty Roberts was named director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems (ATAS) laboratory. The laboratory is one of two units based at the Cobb…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

April 1-4 Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) 52nd Annual International Convention and Trade Show. Gaylord Texas Resort and Convention Center, Dallas. Contact AEA, phone 816-347-8400 or visit www.aea.net. May 3-6 Army Aviation Association…

Military

Intelligence Upgrade

Just how valuable the intelligence gathered by the RC-12 Guardrail aircraft is to U.S. Army ground commanders is rarely disclosed. The ground-based Guardrail system uses airborne receivers to collect signals intelligence (SIGINT)…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Displays

By taking advantage of commercial advances in glass and graphics generators, display manufacturers are able to design and manufacture lightweight, low-cost cockpit displays that also have the functionality and symbology necessary for…

ATM Modernization

New Products

1553/ARINC 429 Test, Simulation Products Data Device Corporation (DDC), Bohemia, N.Y., introduced new Mil-Std-1553/ARINC 429 test and simulation products, including a four-channel 1553 PCI Express card (BU-67106K) and updated Multi-I/O 1553/429 USB…

Business & GA

Custom Cabins

The "office in the sky" concept as it applies to business jets has been talked about for almost as long as there have been business jets in the sky, but in the…