ATM Modernization

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Schmidt, Deputy Director Kevin Petersen, director of the Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), has named Steven Schmidt as deputy director. Schmidt has been the special assistant to the NASA administrator since January…

Business & GA

Product Focus: PXI Coming Of Age

Small test cards based on the PCI bus technology used in desktop computers emerged six years ago. But the PXI (PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation) standard caught on slowly in the military/aerospace market.…

ATM Modernization

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Thales on Watchkeeper The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) recently selected a Thales UK-led team for the next phase of the acquisition cycle for its Watchkeeper unmanned air vehicle (UAV) program. The…

ATM Modernization

Perspectives: New Era For a New Loran

In the last several years, while the United States migrated away from a sole-means GPS approach to critical infrastructure operations, Loran has changed, as well. It has rapidly evolved into a modern…

Commercial

Safety: Terrorists on Camera

Message to terrorists: Try to hijack an airplane, and you'll be on "candid camera." Video imagery of events in the cockpit or cabin could be transmitted to the ground using the existing…

ATM Modernization

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Diamond DA40 Approval The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Garmin International a supplemental type certificate for Diamond Aircraft Co.'s DA40 Diamond Star. Diamond is now authorized to deliver DA40s with Garmin's G1000…

ATM Modernization

ADS-B’s Global Advance

Earlier this year, in Anchorage, Alaska, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-sponsored international conference on advanced aviation technologies heard speakers from the United States, Australia, Sweden and Russia. They described advancements under way…

Business & GA

Cabin Security

On Oct. 27, 2003, the UK Department for Transport (DfT) clarified its directive that all UK airlines install a means of visually monitoring the area outside of the flight deck. In a…