MilitaryProduct Focus: 1553: Ever Faster Efforts to drive throughput on the Mil-Std-1553 bus are accelerating, as another company enters the arena. Will there be a "Mil-Std-1553C" standard next year? Although data buses are hidden away in the…
CommercialBritish Airways Avionics: Making Adjustments British Airways Avionic Engineering (BAAE), in Cardiff, Wales, is located not far from the carrier's major engine maintenance facility, a unit that was sold to outside interests as part of a reorganization…
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.…