Business & GA

The Great Spectrum Explosion

It’s hard to squeeze a size-12 foot into a size-10 shoe. Yet, the two agencies that manage radio frequency (RF) spectrum in the United States have been ordered to do just that:…

Business & GA

System Design: Fraudulent and Forged Parts

When high-profile crimes clamor for our attention on the nightly news, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the electronics world has its own misdeeds, which can have serious implications for the avionics…

Editor's Note

Calendar

July 15-16 Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (ABACE), Hong Kong, People's Republic of China. Contact Kathleen M. Blouin, National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), phone 202-783-9364, e-mail kblouin@nbaa.org or visit www.abace.aero 19-25…

Military

New Missions For The Hawkeye

The U.S. Navy wants to expand the role of its Hawkeye aircraft to include coastal area surveillance and theater air and missile defense (TAMD). This is no small order for an airplane…

Business & GA

Editor’s Note: ANSPs’ Desire To Cooperate

Cooperation is “not a sentiment — it is an economic necessity.” So said Charles Steinmetz, the inventor of alternating current. In that vein members of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organization (CANSO)…

ATM Modernization

Link 2000+: CPDLC System Steams Ahead

While the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) controller pilot data link communication (CPDLC) program in Miami cools on the proverbial back burner, Eurocontrol’s CPDLC program steams ahead with Link 2000+. Some 25…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Single-Board Computer General Micro Systems, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., has announced the Spider, which it claims to be the world’s smallest single-board computer (SBC). Measuring 2.8 by 1.9 inches (7.1 by 4.8 cm),…

Business & GA

Product Focus: ARINC 653 and RTOS

If real-time operating systems (RTOS) are the heart of safety-critical, air transport avionics, then ARINC 653 is at the heart’s core. RTOS conformance to the low-level capabilities described in the specification allows…