ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

  Coast Guard Trades Speed For Capability With New Ocean Sentry The U.S. Coast Guard is trading speed for capability with its new HC-144A Ocean Sentry medium range surveillance aircraft, which enters…

ATM Modernization

People

David Chesmore Flight Display Systems, Alpharetta, Ga., named David Chesmore product engineer. Chesmore will be responsible for sustaining engineering standards and developing new products. Chesmore has more than 20 years of experience…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

October 2-7 D.L.S. EMC by Your Design Seminar/Workshop, sponsored by D.L.S. Electronic Systems, Hilton Hotel, Northbrook, Ill. Contact D.L.S., phone 847-537-6400 or visit www.dlsemc.com. 6-8 National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) 61st Annual…

Business & GA

Cover Story: SVS Virtual Sight Lines

Humans are visual creatures — if forced to give up one of our five senses, not many of us would choose to be blind. Living in a dark or blurry world is…

Military

Beating Ballistic Threats

Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG) and small arms fire remain deadly, plentiful threats to helicopters forced to fly close to concealed enemies. Unlike Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) countered by missile warning receivers,…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Electronic Standby Instrument L-3 Avionics Systems, Grand Rapids, Mich., introduced the Trilogy ESI-1000 Electronic Standby Instrument, a solid-state integrated standby system created for Part 23 aircraft. L-3 said the system is designed…

Commercial

Deterministic Ethernet for Avionics

The AEEC has been documenting methods for transferring digital information between avionics boxes since the 1960s. However, it wasn’t until the implementation of ARINC 429 as a reliable, high-integrity digital databus that…