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New Products

Portable Radio Altimeter, GPS Test Sets Aeroflex Inc., Wichita, Kan. division, introduced the ALT-8000, an RF-based portable radio altimeter flightline test set. It is a lightweight, universal test set for 4.3 GHz…

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Perspectives: Cooperation

Following are excerpts of the keynote address by FAA Administrator J. Randolph Babbitt at the 2010 RTCA Spring Symposium, “Bringing NextGen Into Focus,” which was co-produced by Avionics Magazine, April 6 in…

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Editor's Note: Real Or Imagined?

Is progress toward the 2025 vision of the Next Generation Air Transportation System real or imagined? That, in so many words, was the surprising question asked of me as I filed to…

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Industry Scan

Commercial FAA Response FAA executives on April 6 outlined steps they are taking in response to the RTCA NextGen Mid-Term Implementation Task Force recommendations, and pledged ongoing engagement with industry. In a…

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People

Stefan Hansen Lufthansa Systems named Stefan Hansen as CEO and chairman of the Executive Board for a three-year term. He will succeed Wolfgang F. W. Gohde. Hansen began his career in 1990…

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Calendar

May 3-5 Navy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition, Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center, National Harbor, Md. Visit www.seaairspace.org. 4-6 European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE), Geneva PALEXPO and Geneva International Airport, Geneva,…

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SESAR’s Business Balance

While operators and industry in the United States are coming to terms with the transformation of air traffic management embodied in the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), their European counterparts are…

Military

Cyclone Search

The first CH148 Cyclone arrived at Canadian Forces Base Shearwater, Nova Scotia, in February to begin cold weather testing and sea trials for the Canadian Maritime Helicopter Project (MHP). Starting this November,…