ATM ModernizationNew Products Custom Battery Packs Atlantic Components (Atcom) of Woburn, Mass., now offers custom manufactured battery packs that can be made to solve space and design requirements or multiple power source requirements. The battery…
ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: Cross-Wired Controls A Lufthansa A320 came within less than two feet and a few seconds of crashing during takeoff on a planned flight from Frankfurt to Paris. Preliminary reports indicate that maintenance performed on…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Airbus Buys into Tenzing Tenzing Communications announced at the Paris Air Show that Airbus Industrie has purchased a 30% chunk of the in-flight communications company as part of a deal to offer…
ATM ModernizationSwanwick's Herculean Training Program On Jan. 27, 2002, one of the world’s most ambitious air traffic control (ATC) projects is due to become fully operational. It will have involved the relocation of air traffic management over…
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…
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…
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