Rockwell Collins: Leadership Positions Rockwell Collins has filled two new executive leadership positions as part of an organizational change in anticipation of its planned spin-off from Rockwell International Corp. Reporting to President…
CONNECTORS, quite apparently, join different materials or segments of a material together. There is nothing mysterious about the connector's function. However, the durability and environmental stress tolerance that they must possess make…
COCKPIT VOICE RECORDING OF A wet runway landing that went badly: First officer: "We're down (pause). We're sliding." Captain: (Expletive - expletive). Unknown: Oh sh- (no interpretation needed in this G-rated magazine).…
Canadair 604 Avionics Updated Rockwell Collins recently received a Technical Standard Order (TSO) for a mid-life avionics upgrade package for the Bombardier Canadair Challenger 604 bizjet. Integration of the upgrade into production…
AFTER BEING STUNG BADLY during the 1982 Falklands conflict, the British Royal Navy had 10 of its Sea King HAS Mk2 helicopters initially retrofitted with Thorn-EMI (later Racal and now Thales Avionics)…
THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, as we learned in school, is America's great watershed. Rain falling to its west ends up, eventually, in the Pacific, while that falling to the East feeds the Atlantic…
AS WAS REPORTED LAST month, the technical scope of Project 25 (P25) radio systems is broad. It provides the long-term communication compatibility path desired by government and public safety agencies and their…
MCMURDO STATION, THE United States' outpost in Antarctica and flight hub for the white continent, is completing a communications upgrade that will make flights safer and air traffic control (ATC) less difficult.…