New aircraft and retrofit installations for the near- to mid-term, plus new technologies such as broadband and in-seat power supply should keep the in-flight entertainment market healthy for some time, Frost &…
You are a commercial pilot with a layover. You’ve checked into a hotel and have some time to kill. You could watch television or read a book. Or you can practice the…
Despite an oil crisis that had European truckers on strike and European motorists standing in line (a la the early 1970s in the United States), the avionics industry gathered in the land…
A Graphic Test I just finished reading David Evans’ column "It Ought to be in Pictures" (September 2000). I put Flight Lt. Mark Walmsley’s basic question, "Do graphic displays offer a cognitive…
Analog Test Subsystem Teradyne Inc. launched its Ai7-Series Analog Test Subsystem for advanced mixed-signal functional testing during the fall Autotestcon trade show in Anaheim, Calif. The Ai7-Series provides high-throughput testing for complex…
Ixthos: Patterson, VP Operations Lynn Patterson was appointed as vice president of operations for Ixthos Inc., a DY4 company. She has worked for Ixthos for eight years in DSP engineering and product…
How is Mil-Std-1553 viewed by the primary user of the avionics bus? For an answer, Avionics Magazine interviews Bill Wilson, an avionics architecture technical expert with the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC/ENAS) at…
The single most "proliferated" item of the electrical system in a modern cockpit is the circuit breaker. Sometimes known as circuit protection devices (CPDs), a moniker that literally denotes their function, breakers…