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…

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…

ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: Airspace Anxiety

The timing was coincidental, but the warnings were similarly dire. A British government report issued in late October predicted catastrophic consequences for the world economy if global warming continues its course, absent…