Business & GAOne-on-One with Thales' Francois Lureau The year 2000 brought fundamental change to Thomson-CSF, now called Thales. First, there was the acquisition in June of Racal Electronics Plc, the UK manufacturer of a wide array of aerospace electronic…
ATM ModernizationAvionics System Design: The Pitfalls of Long-Term Storage Storing and archiving design, service and production data is far trickier than it might initially appear. The original data often is computer generated, which means it must be stored in some electronic…
CommercialAvionics System Design: Designing with PC104 Technology As people try and port various kinds of intelligent displays and systems into aircraft, especially for special-purpose data applications, they feel considerable pressure to use popular technology from the embedded microprocessor world–in…
ATM ModernizationAn ATC Upgrade of Olympian Size Athens, city of antiquity and tourism, has a new airport–one fit for the 21st century, and for the Olympic Games that the city will host in 2004. Due to be inaugurated this…
Business & GABarcoView's ISIS, Goddess of Light? Air traffic controllers, spending their days staring at screens, know the importance of clear, easy-to-read images. Screen makers know that, too, and seek to offer better clarity in their products–which is why…
ATM ModernizationRunway Incursions: The Threat on the Ground The world’s worst aviation accident occurred in 1977, almost a quarter of a century ago, at Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands. Five hundred and eighty-three persons were killed when a…
CommercialProduct Focus: CVRs & FDRs First, the disclaimer: It’s impossible for me to write about cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) and digital flight data recorders (FDRs) with less than a passing interest in the subject. I fly jets…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: Cynics and the FAA's ATO Former President Clinton’s Dec. 7, 2000 executive order to establish a performance-based air traffic control (ATC) entity, called the Air Traffic Organization (ATO), has drawn its share of cynicism. The order "sounds…