ATM Modernization

People

Alan Caslavka Alan Caslavka was named vice president and general manager of Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence Solutions for Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In this role, Caslavka is responsible for developing…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

April 6-9 Army Aviation Association of America (AAAA) Convention, National Harbor, Md. Contact AAAA, phone 203-268-2450 or visit www.quad-a.org. 14-17 Avionics Maintenance Conference, Tulsa Marriott Southern Hills, Tulsa, Okla. Contact organizer ARINC,…

Business & GA

Cover Story: ‘Big Iron’ Capability

Many turbine pilots get the willies just thinking about flying small airplanes, especially in anything less than blue skies. Reliability and redundancy are two reasons for that. But small aircraft owners can…

Commercial

Commercial: Aerospace RFID

On the 10 million-square-foot campus of Spirit AeroSystems’ main assembly plant in Wichita, Kan., small, wireless radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags monitor in real time the location of 30,000 aircraft parts during their…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Antennas

New, more powerful satellite constellations are allowing aircraft antenna manufacturers to build smaller but highly capable antennas for narrowbody and corporate aircraft. At the same time, these new antennas also bring with…

ATM Modernization

New Products

ARINC 825 PMC Module TechSAT, of Poing, Germany, in cooperation with Innovative Control Systems, based in Phoenix, Stock Flight Systems and Wetzel Technology released the A825-PMC, described as the first commercially available…

ATM Modernization

Perspectives: Production Variance

As I have read and listened to the discussion of airline profitability and air-traffic control (ATC) problems, punctuated by bankruptcies, delays, congestion, meltdowns, etc., I have concluded the problem, and therefore the…

Military

McDonnell Douglas Wins Navy AESA Contract

McDonnell Douglas Corp., St. Louis, Mo., won a $38.5 million contract modification with the U.S. Navy for new spares to support the F/A-18 AN/APG-79 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. Work will…