CommercialCover Story: RNP on Approach Considered by some as the ultimate breakthrough allowing the transition from ground-based to aircraft-based navigation, Required Navigation Performance (RNP) has enjoyed a rather slow, decade-long evolution. But recent developments in the United…
CommercialCommercial: Engine Prognostics From sensors to software, enhanced elements in turbine engine health monitoring and management systems (EHMS) are well worth their Krugerrand weight for providing faster, more detailed engine lifetime prediction. In the "time…
MilitaryMilitary: Legacy Systems, New Life Advances in targeting pods and the flexibility of fighter aircraft to do more than drop bombs have given the U.S. military a unique capability to gather and disseminate real-time data on everything…
CommercialQ&A: Avionics Upgrades, Airbus Style Pierre Magro was nominated head of the avionics product line within Airbus Customer Services in 2005. He is responsible for the production, quality and scheduling of all design, technical solutions and supply…
Business & GAProduct Focus: In-Flight Entertainment Starting this summer, a spate of cellular and voice products are slated to enter the market, further transforming the aircraft cabin into a mobile office, telephone booth and living room. Onboard phone…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Sabre Jet Memories Avionics Contributing Editor James W. Ramsey has published "The Buried Dot," chronicling his experiences as a fighter interceptor pilot flying the F-86D/L Sabre Jet in the 1950s. The title…
MilitaryDRS Wins Radar Contract DRS Technologies, Parsippany, N.J., said it received a $7.1 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide depot radar repair services. The contract, which is with the Warner Robins Air Logistics…
CommercialCAE, Air Canada in Training Pact Canadian simulator company CAE said it signed a series of contracts with Air Canada to give CAE responsibility for training center operation services for the airline’s Toronto and Vancouver centers. The contracts…
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