ATM Modernization Avionics Aftermarket Services: A Buyer's Market New airplane sales are down and opera-tors are focusing laser-like on the bottom line. Bent on reducing costs, airlines want to shift inventory expense and risk to suppliers on the best possible…
Business & GA Multimode Receivers: More Demand, More Capability Multimode recievers (MMRs), the high-integrity, multifunction navigation units installed on many air transport-class airplanes today, are expanding their scope. Driving this expansion are military aviation needs and the evolution of the National…
ATM Modernization People Rockwell Collins: New Officials Rockwell Collins recently named two new vice presidents, Mark Crumbish and Kent Statler. Crumbish, who formerly was with the venture capital support company, Milcom Technologies, is Collins’ new…
Business & GA Over the Top: Flying the Polar Routes It is cold at Eilson Air Force Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska. Forty-five degrees below zero cold. It is February 1972, and we are with a KC-135 tanker task force. Our job is…
Business & GA Standby Flight Instruments: Helpful or Hazardous? Accident investigators at Canada’s Transportation Safety Board have issued an aviation safety advisory to international aviation authorities and aircraft operators concerning standby flight instruments. While aimed at the use of standby flight…
Military The Emerging World of JTRS This spring, possibly this month, the U.S. armed forces will enter uncharted territory. If all goes as planned, the Army will award the first chunk of a program with an ambitious end…
ATM Modernization People ITCN Inc.: New Officials ITCN Inc., manufacturer of test equipment and software development tools for embedded systems, recently announced two promotions and three new officials. The Miamisburg, Ohio-based company promoted Justin Upper…
Military Product Focus: Mission Data Recorders Defining a mission data recorder (MDR) isn’t easy. How, for example, does an MDR differ from other recording devices on an aircraft? When asked to define an MDR, Bruce McEwen, Smiths Aerospace’s…