ATM ModernizationPeople Airline Avionics Institute: Volare Awards Three winners of this year’s Airline Avionics Institute’s (AAI’s) Volare Awards were honored in April at the 52nd April Avionics Maintenance Conference (AMC), held in San Francisco.…
Business & GAProduct Focus: Avionics Integration Kits The problem: You own a fleet of older aircraft that still have useful time. You want to update the aircraft to enhance their utility, safety and efficiency. But your engineering staff can’t…
ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: Time to Stop Fuel Tank Explosions It is often said that it takes two and a half accidents to spur the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to corrective action. By this standard, the feds are late, sunk even…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Thales Joins with L-3 Communications Thales Avionics and L-3 Communications signed an agreement in mid-April to form a joint venture company, to be located in Phoenix, Ariz. This move is consistent with…
Business & GAAirshow -- No Longer a Single-Product IFE Provider In this age of computer technology, demand for in-flight entertainment, Internet, e-mail and wireless capability is on the rise. Airshow Inc. is busily working on solutions to make it all possible. The…
ATM ModernizationAvionics System Design: The Pitfalls of Long-Term Storage Storing and archiving design, service and production data is far trickier than it might initially appear. The original data often is computer generated, which means it must be stored in some electronic…
Business & GAThe Pulse of the Databus Market This year looks good for avionics databus technology in the United States. Numerous products will ship in the first six months. The Mil-Std-1553 market holds its own, with new aircraft programs and…
CommercialEditor's Note: The UWB Can of Worms The issue of ultra-wide-band (UWB) technology’s possible interference with the Global Positioning System (GPS) signal has become nothing short of a can of worms. We’ve followed this issue intently for several months…