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Calendar

March 17-19 ATC Global Exhibition & Conference, Amsterdam RAI Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Visit www.atcevents.com/atc09/homepage.asp. 29-April 3 Embedded Systems Conference, McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, Calif. Visit www.cmp-egevents.com/web/esv/home. 30-April 2 AMC and…

Business & GA

Managing Maintenance

Operators today — be they airline, business aviation, or military — are looking for known, predicable avionics costs, and this quest is driving industry maintenance trends. Avionics original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are…

Commercial

Wire Inspection, The Navy’s Way

In the United States Navy, where operational readiness is directly tied to the mission capability of highly complex aircraft, preventive maintenance is the difference between mission success or mission failure. For more…

Business & GA

Enduring Oversight

Promising endurance of up to 52 hours and operating costs a fraction of those associated with fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft, the Polar 400 Remotely Piloted Air Vehicle (RPAV) is an appealing new…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Lighting

With light-emitting diode (LED) technology for cockpit and cabin lighting now the norm for all new-production applications, lighting suppliers are working to develop higher-power LEDs that are brighter and to improve processing…

Business & GA

Opportunity Knocks

Amidst the doom and gloom of the global financial meltdown, there are discernible signs of movement, at least within the avionics industry. In the stagnant economy we’ve inherited from Wall Street, companies…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

Commercial Boeing Restructures Boeing in December announced a restructuring within its Commercial Airplanes division, combining production and development programs, including the 787 Dreamliner and 747-8, under a new Airplane Programs organization and…

Editor's Note

People

Joseph Little Flight Display Systems, of Alpharetta, Ga., named Joseph Little (right) vice president of research and development. Little has more than 20 years of experience in electronics product engineering and design.…