ATM ModernizationLooming Crisis, Plea for Action The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is at a crossroads-and the future of U.S. aviation hangs in the balance. Last month President George W. Bush delivered to Congress a proposed Fiscal Year 2005…
Business & GAProduct Focus: Say Hello to FRED Data in flight recorders is stored in crash-protected memory. But when a recorder is recovered from an accident scene, it can take weeks to decipher what the data means-to translate it into…
Business & GARegional Jet Cockpits-Now and in the Future Describing the cockpit avionics in today's regional jets can be either straightforward or complex. It is straightforward if one deals with the dominant airframes from Bombardier and Embraer, where standardization across the…
ATM ModernizationFBW for the S-92 While offshore support operator Petroleum Helicopters Inc. (PHI) takes delivery this month of the first production Sikorsky S-92 at Heli-Expo in Las Vegas, engineers at BAE Systems' Johnson City, N.Y., facility are…
Business & GASafety: From Typo to Tailstrike Incorrect weight and speed data can be potentially deadly, especially when the airplane's computer accepts erroneous information without an error check–rather like a word processor without a spell checker. What a difference…
ATM ModernizationScan Rebuilding Iraqi ATC A team of Raytheon ATM officials traveled to Iraq in late January, responding to an initial $10.5-million contract the company won to rebuild the air traffic control (ATC) facilities…
MilitaryKeeping Secrets in Integrated Avionics In the not-too-distant future, military aircraft may receive and exchange classified data with a variety of systems, as nodes in a global network. At the same time, military aircraft are equipping with…
Business & GASystem Design: What to Listen for in Digital Audio We live in an analog universe, where every sound and color has infinite complexity, depth and resolution� Every sense–hearing, taste, smell, etc.–is analog in nature. As humans, we don't have the ability…