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| 04.01.2009 |
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New Products
1553/ARINC 429 Test, Simulation Products Data Device Corporation (DDC), Bohemia, N.Y., introduced new Mil-Std-1553/ARINC 429 test and simulation products, including a four-channel 1553 PCI Express card (BU-67106K) and updated Multi-I/O 1553/429 USB Avionics...
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| 04.01.2009 |
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Editor’s Note: Hotels And Bizjets
I was comparing notes with my brother the other day about the sorry state of the economy. He’s an executive at a luxury resort in Florida. Nice place, to say the least. I’ve stayed there before (at a discount) and imagined: this is as good as it...
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| 04.01.2009 |
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Product Focus: Displays
By taking advantage of commercial advances in glass and graphics generators, display manufacturers are able to design and manufacture lightweight, low-cost cockpit displays that also have the functionality and symbology necessary for flight governed by...
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| 04.01.2009 |
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Aviationtoday.com: Sun Peeks Through
Making the journalistic rounds at February’s Heli-Expo 2009 in Anaheim, Calif., I encountered spirited debate about an issue that surfaces every year at this show: the lack of adequate infrastructure (in the form of heliports) and the related need to...
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| 04.01.2009 |
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Custom Cabins
The "office in the sky" concept as it applies to business jets has been talked about for almost as long as there have been business jets in the sky, but in the past few years the reality of an executive being able to accomplish in the corporate jet...
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| 03.11.2009 |
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Boeing, CMC To Provide Class 2 EFBs
Boeing announced an agreement with Esterline CMC Electronics to provide Class 2 electronic flight bag (EFB) hardware on selected aircraft models for production and retrofit, starting with the Next-Generation 737. Boeing said a second provider will be...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Wire Inspection, The Navy’s Way
In the United States Navy, where operational readiness is directly tied to the mission capability of highly complex aircraft, preventive maintenance is the difference between mission success or mission failure. For more than seven years, the Naval Air Systems...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Enduring Oversight
Promising endurance of up to 52 hours and operating costs a fraction of those associated with fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft, the Polar 400 Remotely Piloted Air Vehicle (RPAV) is an appealing new surveillance platform. Last November, Guardian Flight...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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New Products
New Web Site Mid-Continent Instruments, Wichita, Kan., has launched a new Web site — www.mcico.com — providing a new tool to enhance customer service The new site was developed following a year of customer research and content organization...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Industry Scan
Commercial NextGen Update The FAA on Jan. 30 released an update to its NextGen Implementation Plan, defining the core set of avionics that will support NextGen operational capabilities deployed by 2018. The updated plan contains high-level "governing...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Managing Maintenance
Operators today — be they airline, business aviation, or military — are looking for known, predicable avionics costs, and this quest is driving industry maintenance trends. Avionics original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are offering...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Product Focus: Lighting
With light-emitting diode (LED) technology for cockpit and cabin lighting now the norm for all new-production applications, lighting suppliers are working to develop higher-power LEDs that are brighter and to improve processing techniques that improve color...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Aviationtoday.com
A Future Too Soon? Not that you asked, but I work out of my home office in Barrington, R.I., a quintessentially New England town by the sea. It’s a pleasant enough place — except during winter, when temperatures drop into the teens and snow snarls...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Editor’s Note
ADS-B Advances Somewhat under the radar (I hate to start with a cliché, but the days may be numbered for radar)... FAA’s NextGen air-traffic control modernization is progressing. Despite all that has transpired in the last year in aviation and...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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People
United Appointments UAL Corp., the holding company of United Airlines, named Michael Quiello (right), vice president of corporate safety, security, quality and environment, and Mark Mounsey, vice president of base maintenance for United Services. Quiello most...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Calendar
March 17-19 ATC Global Exhibition & Conference, Amsterdam RAI Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Visit www.atcevents.com/atc09/homepage.asp. 29-April 3 Embedded Systems Conference, McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, Calif. Visit...
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| 02.01.2009 |
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Industry Scan
Commercial Boeing Restructures Boeing in December announced a restructuring within its Commercial Airplanes division, combining production and development programs, including the 787 Dreamliner and 747-8, under a new Airplane Programs organization and forming...
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| 02.01.2009 |
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Product Focus: Connectors
With the introduction of high-speed data communications for the cockpit and the continuing evolution of advanced in-flight entertainment systems in the cabin, avionics connector manufacturers and standards-setting bodies working to define specifications have...
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| 02.01.2009 |
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New Products
Maintenance Center Duncan Aviation will build a full-service business aviation maintenance facility in Provo, Utah. The facility, which is set to open in August 2010, will provide airframe, engine, interior completions, exterior paint and avionics...
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| 02.01.2009 |
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The Hardware Link
Quiz: In our increasingly numerical world, which of the following standards has rapidly become the focal point for the silicon in avionics hardware? Mil-Std-1553 AS9100 DO-178B DO-254 If you said 3 — DO-178B — you are close. But the correct answer...
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