Business & GAAvionics System Design: Antennas and Feedlines All aircraft start out looking sleek and graceful. Then comes the avionics department, and their sleekness diminishes because every surface seems to have an antenna attached. Large or mission-specific airframes, especially, are…
CommercialEditor's Note: Boeing –– Misunderstood? Everyone knows Boeing manufactures airplanes. Many know, as well, that for the sake of diversification, it also provides other products and services, from satellites to broadband cabin communications to integrated military electronics.…
ATM ModernizationFeedback What’s Good for the Military… In your "Safety in Avionics" column, I read about the fact that vapors may have been ignited by wires in fuel tanks (June 2001). I would like…
CommercialCommunications Gate-to-Gate Few pilots, when preparing for a flight from, say, the west coast to the east coast with a brief overnight stop midway, would overlook testing their radios for full and correct operation…
ATM ModernizationAvionics Aftermarket Services: A Buyer's Market New airplane sales are down and opera-tors are focusing laser-like on the bottom line. Bent on reducing costs, airlines want to shift inventory expense and risk to suppliers on the best possible…
Business & GAMultimode Receivers: More Demand, More Capability Multimode recievers (MMRs), the high-integrity, multifunction navigation units installed on many air transport-class airplanes today, are expanding their scope. Driving this expansion are military aviation needs and the evolution of the National…
ATM ModernizationPeople Rockwell Collins: New Officials Rockwell Collins recently named two new vice presidents, Mark Crumbish and Kent Statler. Crumbish, who formerly was with the venture capital support company, Milcom Technologies, is Collins’ new…
Business & GAOver the Top: Flying the Polar Routes It is cold at Eilson Air Force Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska. Forty-five degrees below zero cold. It is February 1972, and we are with a KC-135 tanker task force. Our job is…