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A380 IFE Thales has demonstrated its TopSeries in-flight entertainment (IFE) system for the Airbus A380 at the Hamburg, Germany, test lab. The audio and video on-demand system will be the first passenger…
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Business & GA
Agusta Westland’s EH101
Search and rescue (SAR) crewmen are a special breed. So are their aircraft. Consider, for example, the U.S. Coast Guard crewmen who won the 2004 Rotor & Wing magazine Heroism Award. Over…
ATM Modernization
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February 21-23 UV (Unmanned Vehicle) Asia-Pacific 2005, The Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore. Contact Shephard Group, phone +44 (0) 1628 604311 or visit www.shephard.co.uk/events. 23-25 Random Vibration and Shock Testing, a short course held…
ATM Modernization
Editor's Note: Stretching The Dollar
Just how far can a dollar be stretched? Two initiatives announced late last year may well provide the answer. Both are significant to civil aviation. And both initiatives will require a large…
ATM Modernization
Military/Civil Interoperability
Since the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and Navy began equipping aircraft to meet military safety mandates and civil air traffic management (ATM) requirements in the late 1990s, they have focused primarily on…
Business & GA
Product Focus: Moving Maps New Connections
These tools are moving rapidly toward the networked environment, as developers explore integration with traffic alert collision avoidance systems and military data links. The concept behind a moving map is simple. It's…
ATM Modernization
New Products
Automatic Cutter The MMC100 automatic cutter by Eraser Co., Syracuse, N.Y., cuts materials from cellophane to copper wire, with a maximum force of 600 pounds (272 kg). Visit www.eraser.com. Sporty's Products Sporty's,…
Commercial
New Way to View Weather
Honeywell's new RDR-4000 weather radar doesn't just see storms ahead of the aircraft. It remembers what it's seen, storing weather data for more than 1.9 million cubic miles. That's a rough calculation…