ATM Modernization

Has 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…

Commercial

Product 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 Modernization

Multilateration’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…

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

Calendar

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…