CommercialSafety in Avionics: Anti-Hijacking Avionics To prevent airliners from being hijacked and employed as flying bombs in a repeat of the horrific events of Sept. 11, added security layers involving armor and avionics are being debated. The…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Falcon 20 Display Garrett Aviation Services, Tempe, Ariz., has installed the first electronic engine instrument upgrade package for a Dassault Falcon 20. Little Rock, Ark.-based Acxiom Corp. owns the aircraft. The installation…
ATM ModernizationAvionics System Design: Voodoo Audio: Part I Recent flights and discussions with flight and technical personnel have convinced me that cockpit audio remains a poorly understood area–one in which a good design requires some innovative bat wing dust and…
Business & GACompetition for Connectivity Just 18 months ago, real-time airborne Internet access seemed to be far off in the future, despite the explosive growth of terrestrial on-line technology. In fact, the in-flight entertainment (IFE) gurus, who…
CommercialA380: 'More Electric' Aircraft For years engineers have dreamed of an all-electric aircraft. They have envisioned a concept called "power-by-wire," in which electrical power moves aircraft flight surfaces. Gone would be the complex, heavy, maintenance-intensive, and…
CommercialAvionics System Design: Huh? What Did He Say? On a recent flight to the bustling metropolis of Nelson, British Columbia (population 8,120), I witnessed airborne communications in the general aviation world. Too bad I didn’t pack my secret decoder ring…
CommercialEditor's Note: A Tale of Two Airports With deference to Charles Dickens, we present in this issue an aerospace version of his A Tale of Two Cities. Actually, we feature two airports, which serve cities with much in common.…
ATM ModernizationFeedback Fighting Fire with Foam David Evans’ "Safety in Avionics" column in the June 2001 issue (page 78), titled "Time to Stop Fuel Tank Explosions" reminded me of an article I read many…