Commercial
UPS Cancels A380 Order
Following several production delays, parcel giant UPS cancelled its order for 10 freighter versions of the Airbus A380. The move leaves Airbus with no firm orders for the freighter version of the…
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Business & GA
Barco to Supply Units to S-76D
Avionics display company Barco signed an agreement with Thales to supply advanced Control Display and Management Systems (CDMS) for use in its new TopDeck avionics suite. Belgium-based Barco said Thales’ TopDeck unit…
Business & GA
New Products
Digital Signal Processor Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, Leesburg, Va., unveiled conduction-cooled, rugged versions of its CHAMP-FX digital signal processor (DSP) 6U VME64x and VITA-41 engines. Also, Curtiss-Wright qualified the high performance IP…
ATM Modernization
Safety: Inertial System Drift
The most expensive failure of a twin Inertial Reference System (IRS) occurred on the first Ariane V rocket in 1996. Thirty-seven seconds after liftoff, a software fault caused an extreme attitude change,…
ATM Modernization
Perspectives: eLORAN’s Shortcomings
While I share the concern about possible backups to automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) in the event of GPS local or larger outages, I don’t believe the entire story about Enhanced Loran
Business & GA
Avionics Magazine Tech Report: Time-Triggered Fieldbus Technologies: Reducing system complexity, lifecycle costs and aircraft weight
Time-triggered fieldbuses, such as Time-Triggered Protocol (TTP) and FlexRay communication protocol, have the potential to solve many systems integration and concurrent engineering issues in the aerospace
Business & GA
IPFD for Helicopters
Honeywell announced the development of an integrated primary flight display (IPFD) for helicopters aimed at improving situational awareness and reducing pilot workload. The synthetic vision technology development process is expected to last…
Military
Military 737 Derivative
Boeing delivered the first of three modified C-40C transport aircraft to the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) in February. The 932nd and 375th Airlift Wings will use the aircraft, a derivative…