Jacco M. Hoekstra is head of the air transport division of the Nationaal Lucht-en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium (NLR), the National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands. In this capacity, he oversees 140 researchers engaged in…
Interconnectivity of avionics, including flight data recorders (FDR), is of prime importance to aircraft operators because it offers rapid data transfer rates and significant time savings. Thanks to increased use of Ethernet…
Development Kit Acqiris, Monroe, N.Y., released its firmware development kit (FDK), which simplifies application development on the embedded field programmable gate array (FPGA) of its SC240/210 streamer analyzers and AC240/210 analyzers. The…
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) said it won a $600,000 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II contract by the Naval Air Systems (NAVAIR) Command to research upgrades to the Navy’s E-2C Hawkeye. RTI,…
Honeywell’s Defense and Space Electronic Systems won a $7.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for 74 embedded Global Positioning/Inertial Production Units on CH-47F, MH-47, H-1W and HH-60J helicopters and F/A-18,…
I have two shot glasses, courtesy of Honeywell, dating from my previous trips to the Avionics Maintenance Conference (AMC) — Phoenix in 1996 and Anchorage in 1997. After a sojourn of nearly…
AMC Delegates Hear Appeal, Finish Agenda After grinding through 20 discussion topics on its opening day, the 58th annual Avionics Maintenance Conference (AMC) picked up speed and completed all 233 items presented…
Universal Avionics Systems Corp., Tucson, Ariz., received an FAA supplemental type certification for its EFI-890R Navigation Display retrofit of a Learjet Model 25D by Stevens Aviation. The LR25 has also been equipped…