CommercialWireless Data Delivers Depending on your background, you might be curious as to what wireless data transmission is and if you need that capability aboard your aircraft. Some people resist technology (late adopters) while others…
Business & GAProduct Focus: Wire & Cable It’s been a decade since wiring problems led to the crashes of TWA Flight 800 and Swissair Flight 111. Years of regulatory work to address shortcomings in aircraft electrical wiring systems has…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Flight Computer Avidyne, of Lincoln, Mass., introduced an attitude-based DFC100 Digital Flight Control System, which was specifically designed for installation in Cirrus SR20s and SR22s with Avidyne’s dual Air Data and Attitude…
CommercialPerspectives: Advancing AIXM FAA, Eurocontrol, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and others, with the assistance of companies such as FedEx and Lufthansa, are developing the Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM),…
Business & GAEditor’s Note: A Corner Turned I couldn’t help but feel patriotic at the Sept. 29 roll-out of the Gulfstream G650 in Savannah, Ga. There we stood, a gaggle of journalists on a makeshift platform, waiting just inside…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan FAA Leadership Supportive Of NextGen Implementation Task Force Report FAA leadership complimented the work of the RTCA NextGen Mid-Term Implementation Task Force, describing its final report as an industry consensus document that…
ATM ModernizationPeople Tracy Simpson Crane Aerospace & Electronics, based in Lynnwood, Wash., named Tracy Simpson vice president, Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Development. Simpson has been with Crane Aerospace & Electronics for more than 20…
Editor's NoteECS in Licensing Agreement with Boeing ECS, which was acquired this month by Carlisle Companies, entered into a data licensing agreement with Boeing allowing the use of Boeing detail engineering design data to develop Supplemental Type Certificates (STC)…