ATM Modernization

New Products

Signal Conditioner Amplifier Hades Manufacturing Corp., Farmingdale, N.Y., has introduced a ruggedized thermocouple, signal conditioner amplifier, constructed to meet Mil-E-5400 environmental standards. The Model NCA150 has isolated input/output power and was designed…

ATM Modernization

People

L-3 Communications: Didier, VP-Business Development L-3 Communications Display Systems named David Didier vice president-business development. Didier was one of the founders of Avionic Displays Corp. whose military business was acquired by L-3…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Flight Recorder Smiths Aerospace has introduced its new Model 3257A series of flight recorders into the civil market. The recorders support existing and future requirements for solid-state cockpit voice and flight data…

Business & GA

Systems That Permit Everyone to Fly

When Orville and Wilbur Wright began developing a vehicle that could fly, people no doubt laughed and shook their heads. "Poppycock. Man wasn’t meant to fly," they probably proclaimed. But the brothers…

ATM Modernization

Industry Scan

First Continuum on G-IIs Rockwell Collins announced in January the first certification of its Pro Line 21 Continuum avionics upgrade package, for the Gulfstream II and IIB business aircraft. The installation includes…

Commercial

Product Focus: Aircraft Wiring

Trapped in an aluminum tube at 33,000 feet with wires leading to the high-load circuit breakers cracked, arced, shorted or fused–an unpleasant scenario. Capt. Paul McCarthy, executive air safety chairman for the…

Business & GA

Cabin Management at the Press of a Button

Ask a question about cabin management systems and the reply is often another question: What do you mean by cabin management? The term has become part of the aviation world’s lexicon since…