Satellite navigation has made some giant strides in recent months. As we report in our story on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Capstone Program (page 17), a wide area augmentation system (WAAS)/GPS…
Setting V-Speeds I enjoyed reading the article by Harry Kraemer, "The Simplified World of CDS/R," in the September issue (page 29). I found it to be well written and very informative. I…
The European rotorcraft manufacturer, Eurocopter, has employed the first all-digital helicopter for a program it calls the All-Weather Helicopter (AWH). Expanding the capabilities of a highly sophisticated EC-155B1, Eurocopter is evaluating the…
The drumbeat for more efficient air traffic management (ATM) and use of airspace grows louder and increasingly zealous. The final report from the Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry…
Lost from the Start Thanks for your editorial and list of acronyms in the December 2002 Avionics Magazine (page 27). As a young engineer in 1967, I attended a meeting at The…
IP Cores Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Condor Engineering now offers its CORE-1553 and CORE-MMSI intellectual property (IP) cores for programmable logic devices. CORE-1553 is a downloadable encoder/decoder/processing core that can provide one or…
Korry Electronics Co.: Houston, President Frank Houston has been named president of Seattle-based Korry Electronics, succeeding Alan Cornell, who is now head of European operations for Korry’s parent company, Esterline Technologies. Houston…
Imagine never again experiencing a flight delay. Imagine flying from point A to point B via the most direct route possible. Impossible? Not really. We all know that the technology to enable…