Commercial

A Happy Landing For LAAS?

Starting in the early 1990s, FAA launched a development program to produce a GPS-based replacement for the aging Instrument Landing System (ILS). The goal — to provide routine and precise satellite guidance…

Business & GA

Barco Displays Its Avionics Strength

A high-technology supplier to several different markets, Barco defines its avionics business as the liquid crystal displays it provides for aircraft cockpits. The company jealously guards the process by which it produces…

Business & GA

Q&A: Engine Support, Wirelessly

Honeywell introduced a remote diagnostic system intended to support its TFE731 engine base initially, but also eyed for remote monitoring of other aircraft systems. Dubbed the "Zing Intelligent Monitoring

Commercial

Product Focus: Data Acquisition

Among new systems that will debut on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an Enhanced Airborne Flight Recorder (EAFR) manufactured by Smiths Aerospace, the first such recorder complying with the new ARINC 767…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Solid-State Relay Teledyne Relays, Hawthorne, Calif., unveiled the Series S60DC40 commercial DC solid-state relay for switching high-power DC loads. The device features the latest-generation Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) technology…

Editor's Note

Perspectives: Frequency Change

As the avionics industry moves toward realization of the all-electric aircraft, in which flight systems rely more on electric drives and actuation than ever before, the impact on the designs of electric…

Editor's Note

Calendar

December 5-7 Dubai Helishow 2006, Dubai Airport Expo, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Contact Mediac Communications & Exhibitions Ltd., phone +44 (0) 1293 823779, e-mail Julia Cuthbert at cuthbert@mediaccom.com or visit www.dubaihelishow.com. 5-7…