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Business & GA

Eclipse, Aspen Settle Lawsuit

Eclipse Aviation Corp. will receive a 1-percent common stock interest in Aspen Avionics, under a legal settlement reached between the companies this month. Last year, co-founders of Aspen Avionics, Albuquerque, N.M., were…

Commercial

Teledyne Signs with Boeing Unit

Teledyne Controls said it was awarded a contract by Boeing subsidiary Alteon Training to install its flight-crew training system on Alteon flight simulators. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Under…

Business & GA

Arrowhead’s Vision Enhancement

Nothing can wreck the plans of a pilot skimming the earth at 120 knots in pitch darkness like an unseen power line. Except maybe an insurgent with a rocket propelled grenade or…

Business & GA

Broadband Rolls Out

The overall adoption of high-speed, or broadband, Internet service is growing. According to a Pew study, 42 percent of Americans had broadband at home in March 2006, up 40 percent from the…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Lighting Technology

New approaches in cockpit lighting design and technology are benefiting both pilots and designers. From a design perspective, computer aided design (CAD) software is helping cockpit lighting come into its own, yielding…

Editor's Note

New Products

Charge Converter PCB Piezotronics, Depew, N.Y., introduced its 495B10 differential remote charge converter. Differential sensors and signal conditioning electronics are used in flight test applications due to their common mode noise rejection.…

Editor's Note

Perspectives: Implement, Deploy CNS Technologies

What key enabling technologies are critical to facilitating growth in the National Airspace System (NAS)? I believe the needed communications, navigation and surveillance (CNS) technologies have been identified. These are Automatic Dependent…

Editor's Note

Editor's Note: Software Security

I've been talking to software engineers a lot lately, and what they’re talking a lot about is software security. With the progression to network-centric operations underway in the U.S. military, and with…