Business & GA

Office In the Sky

Once seen as optional capabilities, access to the Internet, e-mail, corporate Virtual Private Networks (VPN), telephone, fax and other office amenities increasingly are considered must-have features for business aircraft, easily turning the…

Commercial

RCAT: Testbed for Nextgen

One of the most important aspects of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) is ensuring that Department of Defense (DoD) and civil aviation can operate seamlessly in both national and international…

Business & GA

A Coming Phenom

Want a user-friendly, cutting-edge flight deck with growth potential for, say, synthetic vision? No problem. Want the reliability and dispatch dependency learned from decades of making airliners engineered into the basic design…

ATM Modernization

From Definition to Development

Air Traffic Management (ATM) of Europe’s highly fragmented airspace for now is dis-integrated. The European Commission (EC) and Eurocontrol have a vision for a very different future. But their dream of a…

Business & GA

People

Kelly Linnell Shadin Avionics, St. Louis Park, Minn., named Kelly Linnell customer service manager. Linnell is tasked with developing and managing support programs for Shadin Avionics’ customers in government, OEMs and the…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

  IMA Architecture Of A350XWB Is Improvement Over A380 Building on the example of the Airbus A380, the integrated modular avionics (IMA) architecture of the new A350XWB, constructed with fewer, more standardized…

Commercial

Editor’s Note: Sense of Urgency

Under pressure in its efforts to manage air-traffic growth, FAA appears to have a capable new commander in Hank Krakowski, the former United Airlines executive named last fall to head the agency’s…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

July 14-20 Farnborough International Air Show, Farnborough Aerodrome, United Kingdom. Call +44 (0) 20 7976 3330 or visit www.farnborough.com. September 8-11 World Airline Entertainment Association (WAEA) 29th Annual Conference & Exhibition, Long…