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Product Focus: Voice Switches: What’s Next?

Producing voice switches isn’t rocket science, but air traffic controllers can’t do without them. Aside from en route equipment, which has more time left before replacement becomes necessary, many switches in the…

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NASA’s Solution to Runway Incursion

A system to help prevent runway incursions is being integrated into a synthetic vision system (SVS) to provide perhaps the ultimate in situational awareness to air transport pilots as they land, take…

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Safety: Tales of Troubleshooting

The video screens mounted beneath the passenger overhead luggage bins in the cabin were retracting and extending continuously. They created a vivid image of an aircraft electrical system going out of control–and…

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Scan

B747 Classic EFIS Jet Aviation Basel has installed the first electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) for a classic B747, using 6-by-8-inch, wide angle, active matrix liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Supplied by Astronautics…

Editor's Note

Calendar

October 7-9 56th Annual NBAA, Orlando/Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla. Contact the National Business Aviation Association, phone 202-737-4484, fax 202-478-6885 or e-mail dhanson@nbaa.org. 12-16 NASA Digital Avionics Systems Conference, The Crowne…

Business & GA

Editor’s Note: When Aircraft Take Over

Honeywell caused a stir recently when it announced its development of a system that would automatically take control of an aircraft if the pilots fail, or refuse, to prevent a crash. Called…

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Feedback

Remember Cat III GPS? Referring to your story in the April issue (page 39), it’s nice to hear that MLS (microwave landing system) is taking off. I always knew it would. I…

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The Issues Orbiting Galileo

Years after it was first proposed, Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system finally is moving toward launch. The European Union (EU) and the European Space Agency (ESA) this year jointly funded Galileo’s development…