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…
ATM ModernizationAvionics System Design: Insurance As a Design Parameter In the fall and winter of 1999, something happened quietly behind the scenes in the aviation business that may have changed the nature of avionics design and support permanently, but with very…
ATM ModernizationFeedback Integration is the Future I was disappointed in your Outlook 2000 (January) issue of Avionics Magazine, which purported to give the reader "a heads up on upcoming trends in the avionics field."…
ATM ModernizationPeople Smiths Industries: Ferrie, Head of Aerospace Smiths Industries has designated John Ferrie as the new head of Smiths Industries Aerospace, following Norman Barber’s retirement at the end of the current financial year,…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Modular Measuring System Kaman Instrumentation Operations, a unit of Kaman Aerospace Corp., introduced its Series 8000 modular measuring system for noncontact positioning sensing. The product performs at a resolution of at least…
ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: The Fallacies of Free Flight More, not less, top-down control of the national airspace system (NAS) is seen as the solution to the rising tide of flight delays. What does that say about the concept of Free…