Business & GABuilding Highways in the Sky The synthetic highway in the sky (HITS) has become a reality in aircraft cockpits, and Chelton Flight Systems has been key in making it so. The Boise, Idaho-based avionics manufacturer gained Federal…
ATM ModernizationProduct Focus: Data Communications: Pumping the Bus Network-centric warfare applications and integrated architectures are driving the military toward higher-bandwidth onboard interconnects. At the low end, in the Mil-Std-1553 domain, engineers are trying to pump the 1-megabit/sec (Mbit/sec) bus as…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: Wright Flyer to the Concorde Just as the Wright flyer was the precursor to today’s fast, sleek aircraft and the spindly biplane’s water-cooled, four-cyclinder engine was the forerunner of current multithousand-pound thrust jet engines, so too was…
MilitaryCOTS: At Home in Military Simulation At one time military electronics equipment established the benchmarks for capacity and speed. But commercial information technology now sets the pace, propelled by investment in consumer products. After a period of looking…
Business & GAAre We Nearer to NEXCOM? The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) next-generation air/ground communications system (NEXCOM) program is showing steady progress, and its first phase appears to be on schedule, despite industry controversy over the agency’s priorities. Some…
ATM ModernizationFeedback No Monitoring Required I just finished reading the article "Countdown to DRVSM" by Adrian Gerold in the March 2003 issue. It is an excellent article, with the exception of the area dealing…
MilitaryTwo Ways to See Two major U.S. helicopter programs have adopted different helmet-mounted sight/display (HMS/D) technologies. The HMS/Ds are alike in allowing pilots to fly and fire weapons without constantly looking down at the cockpit instruments.…
CommercialThe More Complex the Better The Lufthansa Technik AG (LHT) avionics facility at the Hamburg airport can service everything from a galley water heater to an inertial navigation unit or a flight management system. But it is…