ATM Modernization Editor's Note: The Father of Free Flight William B. (Bill) Cotton has flown many types of airplanes. He flew for United Airlines right up to his retirement, when on Aug. 28 he…
Business & GA Avionics System Design: How Parts and Systems Age Aircraft have very long operational lifespans. Most provide greater than 20 years of usable, high cycle service life. I have worked on plenty of aircraft…
Business & GA Safety in Avionics: EMI: A Serial Killer? The airspace over the Atlantic Ocean immediately east of New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport is sort of a "Bermuda triangle" of electromagnetic interference…
Business & GA EGPWS: Look What It Can Do Now It’s more than 30 years old, and yet it keeps evolving, gaining new capabilities. Ground proximity warning system (GPWS) technology has come a long way…
Military New Life for Old F-16s Rapidly advancing electronics technology means that cockpit equipment becomes outdated much more quickly than the rest of the aircraft, and this is particularly crucial in…
Business & GA A New Kind of DVD UK-based IEC International has developed an in-flight entertainment (IFE) DVD in-seat system that is said to be the first of its kind. The system is…
Business & GA Switches People flick them, push, punch, twist and pull them. But few give much thought to them until they don’t work. Then we are more likely…
ATM Modernization New Products 3-D Software Global Majic Software Inc. has introduced its 3DLinX version 1.5 language-independent software for creating real-time 3-D applications. The software is described as a…