ATM ModernizationHow Test Equipment Gains Intelligence Almost unnoticed, a significant revolution has been going on in the world of test equipment over the last several years. The battle seems to have been largely decided in favor of intelligent…
Business & GATime to Done Your Computers At Federal Express’ (FedEx’s) main hub, in Memphis, Tenn., the cargo carrier’s aircraft line up in workstations for maintenance and inspection. Technicians work diligently, but they don’t scurry about for reference to…
Business & GAAvionics System Design: Designing with LEDs Incandescent lamps have almost vanished from many new avionics designs. Now high-efficiency light emitting diodes (LEDs), especially in white, have become inexpensive and readily available. LEDs are widely used for backlighting pushbuttons,…
ATM ModernizationADS-B for Australia's Outback If you think development activity of the automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) takes place only in the United States, think again. There is, in fact, an ADS-B program being launched on the opposite…
Business & GATackling Turbulence Turbulence, the often violent and irregular motion of air currents, is an unavoidable flight hazard. But the day may soon arrive when turbulence no longer takes air crews by surprise. And this…
ATM ModernizationAvionics History: 1976: What a Year for Avionics THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, as we learned in school, is America's great watershed. Rain falling to its west ends up, eventually, in the Pacific, while that falling to the East feeds the Atlantic…
Business & GAAvionics System Design: P25 Radios: What's in Stock? AS WAS REPORTED LAST month, the technical scope of Project 25 (P25) radio systems is broad. It provides the long-term communication compatibility path desired by government and public safety agencies and their…
ATM ModernizationAir Traffic Control: High Frequency Upgrade at Antarctica MCMURDO STATION, THE United States' outpost in Antarctica and flight hub for the white continent, is completing a communications upgrade that will make flights safer and air traffic control (ATC) less difficult.…