Business & GAThe Desire to Be Interactive In the booming in-flight entertainment (IFE) market—estimated at $1.7 billion in 1999—"interactivity" is the buzzword for the future. Yet nearly everyone in the industry has a different interpretation of just what interactivity…
ATM ModernizationPeople Honeywell: Smith, President & CEO Michael A. Smith, former acting president of Honeywell Space and Aviation Control, has been named president and CEO of the company’s new (following the merger with AlliedSignal)…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Loop Resistance Tester The Boeing Co. has developed an instrument that allows the integrity of cable shielding to be tested without de-mating the connectors. The Loop Resistance Tester (LRT) works by magnetically…
ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: Data Link and Stuck Microphones Increasingly crowded skies generate colorful descriptions of the problem. Here’s one harried air traffic controller’s scatological characterization of the situation for Newark International Airport in New Jersey: "[Newark] tries to put 10…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Belgian Police Receive Enhanced MD 520N The Belgian Gendarmerie (Belgian National Police) was scheduled to take delivery by the end of 1999 of its multimission MD 520N (Model 500N)—fitted with customized avionics…
Business & GATesting Standards: Making Giant Strides The search for maximal test instrument interchangeability with minimal test program modifications has made a lot of progress in the last five years. But work by the Interchangeable Virtual Instruments (IVI) Foundation,…
ATM ModernizationAvionics System Design: Potential Perils of PEDS The issue of PED (personal electronic device) interference with onboard avionics systems becomes more complex and contradictory as one digs deeper into prior documents, conflicting reports, and tests both conducted and not…
MilitaryThe Beauty of COTS The percentage of funds allocated for avionics in U.S. military aircraft programs has grown to enormous proportions. Fortunately, with help from the 1995 reforms in defense acquisitions, a fundamental change exists in…