Business & GAThe Real Reason Selective Availability Was Turned Off It isn’t too often that the President of the United States announces a change in the signal format of a public navigation aid. Especially when, as he pointed out, his announcement was…
Business & GALuxury Joins Speed and Flexibility Enter the cabin of a Bombardier Challenger and one would expect a plush interior: leather seats, galley, soft lighting, and in-flight entertainment (IFE). And it’s no different with Flight Services Group’s (FSG’s)…
Business & GAUAE's Modernized Mirage At the Dubai Air Show last November, the Gulf Aircraft Maintenance Co. (GAMCO) announced that it had won a contract from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force and Air Defence to…
ATM ModernizationNew Mexico's Technological Finds Microscopic machines, satellite science, high-speed semiconductors, and voice operated, 3-D air traffic imagery. This is the kind of wizardry currently spewing from New Mexico, and at Mach speeds. New Mexico has the…
ATM ModernizationPeople Ball Aerospace: Crawford, Managing Director Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. appointed Walter Crawford as its new managing director of Global Communications and Video Solutions (GCVS), a business unit of the Commercial Products…
ATM ModernizationNew Products New Full-Feature 1553 Cards Ballard Technology Inc. has introduced a new family of PC cards (PCMCIA) for Mil-Std-1553 databus interfacing. The eight CM1553-3 models are now available in a small, portable PC…
ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: Needless Nakedness in the Face of Fire If a pilot’s greatest fear is that of in-flight fire, U.S. airline pilots are facing this frightening specter an average of three times a day. The realization of fire on board always…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan HGS on the Challenger 604 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration recently approved the Flight Dynamics head-up guidance system (HGS) on the Bombardier Canadair Challenger 604. The STC follows some three years of…