Business & GAProduct Focus: Inmarsat Swift64 Expands Inmarsat’s 11-month-old Swift64 high-speed data service, based on the Inmarsat-3 constellation, has carved out a niche in government and corporate aviation. As of December, more than 100 terminals apparently had been sold,…
Business & GAChips That Think: RF Design In the 1980s radio frequency (RF) engineers developed microwave and millimeter-wave integrated circuits that revolutionized the reliability and controllability of RF systems, while significantly reducing their size and cost. But now a…
Business & GAProduct Focus: Cockpit Displays: LCDs vs. CRTs The aviation industry is moving from bulky, power-hungry cathode ray tubes (CRTs) to lighter, more reliable liquid crystal displays (LCDs). New aircraft types and versions have adopted LCDs. But a huge pool…
ATM ModernizationSafety: Tracking System Glitches The use of a procedure in aviation similar to "Ctrl-Alt-Delete" as a last-ditch stratagem to resuscitate a dead personal computer has one big difference: one’s personal computer does not have to reboot…
ATM ModernizationScan Targeting/Nav Pods Northrop Grumman has announced the integration of its LITENING Extended Range (ER) precision targeting system onto U.S. Air Force F-15E fighter aircraft. The LITENING ER system is a self-contained, multisensor…
Business & GAFAA’s STARS: Ready to Shine Bright? Exactly on time, and in a low key, anticlimactic launch, the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) made its initial operating capability (IOC) debut into the National Airspace System (NAS) early in…
MilitarySmart Tanker If you never have experienced a refueling operation from inside a tanker aircraft, you may think the process is relatively simple, involving little more than extending a boom and then letting the…
Business & GAEye on the Cabin Cabin security, thrust into the limelight by the 9/11 terrorist assault, has been quietly pursued for a number of years by a handful of companies that now are poised to capitalize on…
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