Business & GA

The Hardware Link

Quiz: In our increasingly numerical world, which of the following standards has rapidly become the focal point for the silicon in avionics hardware? Mil-Std-1553 AS9100 DO-178B DO-254 If you said 3 —…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Switches

Many of the small bits and pieces in the avionics world don’t change much from year to year. That’s true of a lot of technologies. But every decade or so comes a…

Business & GA

New Products

Sales Representation AD Aerospace, of Cheshire, U.K., appointed Millennium Aviation Consulting (MAC) as its representatives for Latin America. MAC will promote AD Aerospace’s FlightVu range of aerospace video safety and security systems…

Commercial

Editor’s Note: On Wing And Prayer

It’s not often that I get to mention my favorite World War II aircraft in the pages of a 21st century technology magazine. So I was pleased when Marion C. Blakey, president…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

Commercial ADS-B In Europe Equipping for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) in European airspace will be mandatory starting in 2015 — five years earlier than in the United States — under the European…

ATM Modernization

People

Arsen Melconian Tecom Industries, Inc., Thousand Oaks, Calif., appointed Arsen Melconian president. Melconian most recently was Tecom’s vice president of engineering and chief technology officer. He joined the company in 2002 as…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

February 11-12 National Business Aviation Association, Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE), Hong Kong Business Aviation Center at Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong, China. Visit www.abace.aero. 11-15 Aero India 2009,…

Commercial

Airline Uncertainty

The recession in the global economy is casting a shadow over the airline industry and its growth potential for the coming year. Despite sharply lower oil prices, economic stagnation threatens airlines’ delicate…