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Marking the B747 FAA has certified STG Aerospace's SafTGlo photoluminescent (PL) floorpath marking system for the Boeing 747-400. It's the first FAA certification of a PL system on a multideck aircraft. Visit…

Business & GA

Perspectives: Human Factors: Test Pilot's Viewpoint

The development of new avionics systems is an unusual discipline. It is highly technical but subtly different from traditional "engineering." When engineers say they understand something, they mean they can model it.…

Commercial

Safety: A 'Shambolic' Situation

"Shambolic" is an appropriate term for the following case involving wiring, circuit breakers and electrical system design. The expression is British slang for a disorderly or chaotic situation, which is to say…

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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…

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…

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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…

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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…