CommercialIndustry Scan Canadair 604 Avionics Updated Rockwell Collins recently received a Technical Standard Order (TSO) for a mid-life avionics upgrade package for the Bombardier Canadair Challenger 604 bizjet. Integration of the upgrade into production…
MilitaryMilitary Upgrades: How the Royal Navy Advanced Its AEW AFTER BEING STUNG BADLY during the 1982 Falklands conflict, the British Royal Navy had 10 of its Sea King HAS Mk2 helicopters initially retrofitted with Thorn-EMI (later Racal and now Thales Avionics)…
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.…
CommercialAir Transport: How Delta Adds Safety Using the FMS SINCE 1997, DELTA AIR LINE'S primary expansion strategy has been to strengthen its presence in Latin America, beyond its existing routes to Mexico City. It's a strategy that brings financial rewards but…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: We Explain the Technology OUR MISSION WAS TO explain the technology." That is what motivated technical writer Len Buckwalter to launch Avionics Magazine 25 years ago. And that remains the magazine's mission today. In this issue,…
ATM ModernizationFeedback FAA Keeps Watch on UWB At the (U.S.) Federal Aviation Administration, we have been closely involved with the ultra-wideband (UWB) issue since the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) brought to our…