Military

A400M Advances: Taking Off From the A380

Avionics development for Europe's military airlifter is accelerating. While the A400M baselines much Airbus A380 technology, it adds new flight and mission systems. At A Glance: While the A400M will reuse systems…

ATM Modernization

Editor's Note: ADS-B and the Road Ahead

The wheels move slowly in the air traffic control (ATC) world: the current radar-based surveillance infrastructure used in the National Airspace System (NAS) has been in place for some 50 years. That's…

ATM Modernization

ADS-B Launch: Performance-Based Strategy

In early June 2006 the FAA's senior-level Joint Resources Council (JRC) approved Administrator Marion Blakey's choice of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) technology for next-generation surveillance in the National Airspace System (NAS). JRC…

ATM Modernization

Calendar

Calendar July 17-23 Farnborough International Airshow, Farnborough Airport, England. Call +44 (0) 20 7976 3330 or visit www.farnborough.com. 18-20 A course on practical vibration and shock testing, measurement, analysis and calibration, Cascade…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Data Acquisition

In the future some flight data will be sent directly from avionics units to the flight data recorder. Could the FDAU, as a standalone entity, one day be a thing of the…

Business & GA

Perspectives: Future of Radio Communications

I recently made my annual pilgrimage to Dayton, Ohio, to attend the Dayton Hamvention. In May each year, approximately 25,000 amateur radio operators, or hams, and other electronics enthusiasts descend upon Dayton…

ATM Modernization

Honeywell Boots APEX

Phoenix-based Honeywell Aerospace has announced upgrades to the APEX integrated avionics package planned for the Grob SPn, a light jet for business aviation. Honeywell says the improvements will reduce pilot workload, improve…

Business & GA

Low Fluoride Wires and Cables

Tyco Electronics, Harrisburg, Pa., has introduced its Raychem Spec 55 series of low fluoride aerospace wire and cable. The company says it is the first low fluoride version of cross-linked ethylene tetraflourothylene…