Business & GA UAE's Modernized Mirage At the Dubai Air Show last November, the Gulf Aircraft Maintenance Co. (GAMCO) announced that it had won a contract from the United Arab Emirates…
ATM Modernization New Mexico's Technological Finds Microscopic machines, satellite science, high-speed semiconductors, and voice operated, 3-D air traffic imagery. This is the kind of wizardry currently spewing from New Mexico, and…
ATM Modernization People Ball Aerospace: Crawford, Managing Director Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. appointed Walter Crawford as its new managing director of Global Communications and Video Solutions (GCVS),…
ATM Modernization New Products New Full-Feature 1553 Cards Ballard Technology Inc. has introduced a new family of PC cards (PCMCIA) for Mil-Std-1553 databus interfacing. The eight CM1553-3 models are…
ATM Modernization Safety in Avionics: Needless Nakedness in the Face of Fire If a pilot’s greatest fear is that of in-flight fire, U.S. airline pilots are facing this frightening specter an average of three times a day.…
ATM Modernization Industry Scan HGS on the Challenger 604 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration recently approved the Flight Dynamics head-up guidance system (HGS) on the Bombardier Canadair Challenger 604.…
ATM Modernization Avionics System Design: Insurance As a Design Parameter In the fall and winter of 1999, something happened quietly behind the scenes in the aviation business that may have changed the nature of avionics…
ATM Modernization Weather in the Cockpit There was a time when avoiding weather was a tactical exercise. It involved the aircrew making route and/or altitude changes based on information received via…