ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan FlightSafety Boeing Fields B737 Flight Simulators FlightSafety Boeing Training International LLC intends to satisfy global demand for Next Generation B737 simulator training by delivering six new Next-Generation 737 full-flight simulators to training…
Business & GANew Generation of UNS-1 It is autumn 1982, and a one-year-old avionics manufacturer introduces its first product at the National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) show, the UNS-1 flight management system (FMS). Universal Avionics Systems Corp. of…
ATM ModernizationAvionics System Design: Feedback Over PEDs No other topic has produced the same level of reader e-mail and feedback as that of personal electronic devices (PEDs) aboard aircraft. The potential and recorded effects of these devices on aircraft…
Business & GAComanche: Looking Out for Itself For all its second-generation targeting sensors, integrated avionics and centralized computing power, the U.S. Army’s RAH-66 scout/attack helicopter must still be easy to deploy and maintain. The fast, stealthy Comanche will go…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: We're Expanding -- Even More The comments I wrote last month to introduce our new Global Airspace section in Avionics Magazine followed the headline "We’re Expanding." But I only told you part of the story. As I…
MilitaryNATO's Nine-Way Enhanced AWACS The Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) fleet has served as a surveillance aircraft for the North Atlantic Treaty Association (NATO) for close to 20 years. The Boeing E-3 Sentry (B707 airframe)…
ATM ModernizationE-Commerce: What It Is, How to Claim It When hype surrounds a new technology, skepticism often follows. And the non-stop buzz of E-commerce, indeed, has drawn its skeptics. But it has lured its avid proponents as well, who have entered—and…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: E-Commerce in Large Scale In this issue, Joseph P. McCormack reports that, in the avionics industry, Website establishment has become universal, however, the adoption of E-commerce or, more broadly, E-business has so-far gained "mixed" reaction (see…