Business & GACover Story: Before the Storm One expression we don’t see in newspapers these days, or hear on radio and TV, is "air pockets," those Bermuda Triangle-like potholes in the sky that airliners used to routinely fall into.…
MilitaryA Herculean Upgrade Like Hercules, its mythical namesake, the C-130 airlifter is powerful and versatile. Capable of operating from rough, dirt air strips, the four-engine turboprop has been used to ferry troops into war zones,…
Business & GACockpit Comebacks With the current backlog for new aircraft extending to more than a year’s wait, more business cases are being made to retrofit avionics into legacy aircraft. Cockpit display retrofits, featuring all-digital avionics,…
Business & GAQ&A: AEEC Reorganizes, Looks To The Future Dennis Zvacek is manager of Avionics Engineering with American Airlines, and serves as chairman of AEEC, the ARINC conference formerly called the Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee. Zvacek first put his love of…
Business & GAProduct Focus: ATE The automatic test equipment industry has entered what some ATE engineers say is a new golden age. With a plethora of new civil and military aircraft being developed, an imperative to transition…
CommercialBoeing Signs Up Six for Monitoring Unit Boeing said six airlines adopted its in-flight monitoring system in the first half of the year, bringing to 15 the number of airlines and freight carriers to sign for the program. Airlines,…
Business & GAAeroVironment Founder Dies Founder and former chairman of AeroVironment, Paul MacCready, died Tuesday. MacCready founded Monrovia, Calif.-based AeroVironment in 1971. This month, the company celebrated the 30th anniversary of the record-setting flight of the human…
CommercialAeroflex Inks Deal in China Aeroflex, Wichita, Kan., is partnering with Ameco Beijing (Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering Corp.) to provide a local service center for Chinese customers, an attempt to capitalize on the rapidly growing avionics market…