ATM ModernizationThe Complexities of Civil CounterMANPADS At a recent aviation security conference, exhibitors displayed a wide range of new technologies aimed at preventing weapons and explosives from being taken or placed aboard civil aircraft. From air-sampling and X-ray,…
Business & GAProduct Focus: COTS Operating Systems: Boarding the Boeing 787 Real-time operating systems (RTOS) are the foundation software for computing systems. They manage the computers' other software programs and orchestrate these programs' requests for services. And they must be robust enough to…
Business & GAEditor's Note: Repair Station Controversy In our repair station outlook we refer to a "dynamic" market facing changes and challenges. What we don't mention is the controversy the repair station industry currently faces. In the United States…
CommercialEurope Europe FAA lists more than 1,300 repair stations throughout the world. Unable to list all of the repair stations, we nevertheless include some of the key providers of avionics and instrument support.…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: Security in the Balance Are we more secure today than we were before 9/11? That question set the tone for a daylong symposium, titled "Post 9/11 Security Impacts on Air Traffic Control and Aviation," held Jan.…
ATM ModernizationHas the Time Come For UWB Radio? A versatile technology that has existed in its present form for some 40 years only recently has been able to expand into the commercial marketplace in the form of new products. In…
CommercialProduct Focus: KLM’s EFB Experience KLM Royal Dutch Airlines recently took delivery of its 10th Boeing 777-200ER passenger jet. The final two long-range twinjets on order will begin to arrive in 2006. All of them will feature…
ATM ModernizationMultilateration’s Alpine Leap Forward Multilateration's ability to improve the control of aircraft and vehicle movements on the ground at Europe's busier airports has earned it respect on the continent. Faced with relentless air traffic growth, European…