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Smiths Industries: Ferrie, Head of Aerospace Smiths Industries has designated John Ferrie as the new head of Smiths Industries Aerospace, following Norman Barber’s retirement at the end of the current financial year,…
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New Products
Modular Measuring System Kaman Instrumentation Operations, a unit of Kaman Aerospace Corp., introduced its Series 8000 modular measuring system for noncontact positioning sensing. The product performs at a resolution of at least…
ATM Modernization
Safety in Avionics: The Fallacies of Free Flight
More, not less, top-down control of the national airspace system (NAS) is seen as the solution to the rising tide of flight delays. What does that say about the concept of Free…
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Industry Scan
L-3, Sextant Buy TCAS from Honeywell As part of the post-merger plan to divest the overlapping products of Honeywell and AlliedSignal, Honeywell agreed in March to sell its traffic alert and collision…
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Avionics System Design: Lab Magic
Ever so often, a design or test project gets bogged down because some aspect of the lab work hits a brick wall. The method for getting past such a problem is not…
Commercial
Boeing's 767-400ER: Ethernet Technology Takes Wing
Fittingly, delivery of the 21st century’s first new jetliner coincides with the pioneering application of an Ethernet data transmission network to host flight-critical information. The first Boeing 767-400ER (extended range) derivative, scheduled…
Business & GA
Entertainment in Bizjets
Airborne entertainment systems that include live television, movies via digital video disc (DVD) players, and "surround" sound systems–once considered the domain of a Sultan’s private aircraft–now appear fairly routinely on higher-end corporate…
ATM Modernization
Simplifying Databus Analysis
Mil-Std-1553 databus analysis tools, used to observe bus traffic, identify problems, or verify bus performance, are daily becoming more capable, as well as more complex. While analysis, in the narrow sense of…