ATM ModernizationSimplifying 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…
Business & GAEditor's Note: Satnav and Satcom in Jeopardy If you don’t use it, you lose it. That’s the aphorism mouthed by the spectrum-hungry mobile satellite service (MSS) industry, which is growing faster than you can speed dial your mobile phone.…
ATM ModernizationShow Me the Benefit Europe has the world’s most crowded and fragmented air traffic environment. In an effort to improve air traffic flow, government agencies in Europe often require installation of certain avionics. Are they all…
ATM ModernizationAvionics System Design: Feedback Over PEDs No other topic has produced the same level of reader e-mail and feedback as that of personal electronic devices (PEDs) aboard aircraft. The potential and recorded effects of these devices on aircraft…
Business & GAComanche: Looking Out for Itself For all its second-generation targeting sensors, integrated avionics and centralized computing power, the U.S. Army’s RAH-66 scout/attack helicopter must still be easy to deploy and maintain. The fast, stealthy Comanche will go…
ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: We're Expanding -- Even More The comments I wrote last month to introduce our new Global Airspace section in Avionics Magazine followed the headline "We’re Expanding." But I only told you part of the story. As I…
Business & GAThe Promising Future for FDRs and CVRs The "black box" industry – provider of safety/investigation-critical flight data recorders (FDRs) and cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) – is getting a healthy boost today from more stringent government requirements in the wake…
Business & GAWhat Now for the New Honeywell When AlliedSignal and Honeywell announced their merger at the 1999 Paris Air Show, it was the biggest news story from an industry event that generates a lot of big news. Then the…