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ATM Modernization

Safety in Avionics: Avionics Safety, Real or Illusory

Sometimes noticing a single item can lead to larger insights about electrical and avionics system safety. The case at hand involved yet another airworthiness directive (AD), issued recently, calling upon operators to…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

New Displays for Airbus Airbus Industrie is introducing a new, main instrument panel using liquid crystal display (LCD) technology, with certification on the A330/A340 and A320 families expected by the end of…

Business & GA

Broadening Weather Radar's Scope

Weather radar has come a long way, showing much more today than the stormy conditions ahead. Windshear and turbulence detection is being integrated into on-board radar systems, as are terrain and traffic…

Business & GA

Avionics System Design: Living with Connectors

Connector choices and tooling have a rather extraordinary impact on system reliability, because all connections to and from your unit have to travel through them. As a result, designers must stay focused…

Military

C-5 Modernization, Step-by-Step

The U.S. Air Force’s C-5 aviation modernization program (AMP) is a long-term project just getting underway, with fleet-wide installation of an advanced traffic alert and collision avoidance system (TCAS). But TCAS is…

Business & GA

Avionics System Design: Are You Cape-Worthy?

An interesting aspect of working in a company is learning from a coworker something great that you never would have thought of yourself, but still needed to know. Especially delightful is when,…

Military

The Modernized 'Herc'

It first flew nearly a half century ago, in 1954, yet its new cockpit could make the pilots of modern fighters and bizjets near green with envy. Lockheed Martin has transformed the…