Editor's NoteCalendar November 10-11 Airport, Port and Terminal Security Exhibition and Conference (APTS 2004), Olympia 2, London. Contact Michael Costain, International Business Events, phone +44 1892 614 166 or visit www.apts-expo.com. 15-16 Link 16,…
Business & GAEditor’s Note: Tail Wagging The Dog? The 21st century, we are told, will be "the century of Asia." Just as Europe dominated economically in the 19th century, and North America prevailed in the 20th century, so it is…
MilitaryMEMS and Atomic Clocks This past August, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled a development that could deliver a thousand-fold performance improvement over the quartz crystal clocks used in many communication…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Tail-Mounted Satcom Antenna Chelton Inc., Lewisville, Texas, has released what it claims is the world's smallest and lightest Inmarsat-approved, multichannel Aero-H/H+ and Swift64 antenna. The HGA-6000 is a high-gain antenna (HGA) designed…
ATM ModernizationPeople Founder and President Dies The founder and president of Universal Avionics Systems Corp. (UASC), Hubert Naimer, died on Sept. 12 at the age of 82. Austrian-born, he was in Vienna at the…
Business & GAPerspectives: Investing In Info Technology Airlines' investment in information technology (IT) and telecommunications has fallen to an all-time low of 2.1 percent of revenues--down from 2.4 percent in 2003, according to the 2004 Airline IT Trends Survey.…
Business & GARVSM Avionics: Down to the Wire In mid-September, officials from FAA, Nav Canada and Mexico's Direccion General de Aeronautica Civil (DGAC) gathered in Washington, D.C., to sign an agreement that has the three countries concurrently implementing reduced vertical…
Business & GASafety: Throttles-Only Aircraft Control The proverbial pucker factor would have been higher had the pilots of the stricken DHL Airbus 300 been aware of the grim findings of a 1997 NASA technical paper: "Manual throttles-only control…