Business & GANew Products 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…
ATM ModernizationPeople Avionics Technicians Banyan Air Service at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport has appointed John DiMattei as avionics engineer and Patrick Daniel as a technician installing avionics systems and components. DiMattei is responsible for…
ATM ModernizationScan 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…
ATM ModernizationSee and Avoid in IMC At A Glance: We discuss several NASA technologies that could help to enable "see and avoid" under IFR conditions: -- Autonomous flight rules; -- Cockpit display of traffic information with conflict…
ATM ModernizationUAVs in Europe: When Will They File and Fly? At A Glance: Europe, in collaboration with the U.S., is forging a path toward integration of UAVs into civil airspace. We discuss: -- Sense-and-avoid issues, -- Regulatory challenges, and -- UK developments.…
ATM ModernizationSafety: Where’s Redundancy? Together with recent reports of screens going blank in the cockpit, this story does not inspire lasting or fervent confidence in automation. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) headlines its recent report…
MilitaryA400M 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 ModernizationEditor'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…