ATM ModernizationEditor's Note: Seeking the Delicate Balance Where is the delicate balance? The digitized cockpit could grant air crewmen virtually an endless amount of flight-critical data. But such a capacity fosters the concern of creating confusion among pilots from…
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…
Business & GAEntertainment in Bizjets Airborne entertainment systems that include live television, movies via digital video disc (DVD) players, and "surround" sound systems–once considered the domain of a Sultan’s private aircraft–now appear fairly routinely on higher-end corporate…
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.…
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