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May 1, 2009
Industry Scan
Airlines Air Laundry, Resolve Problems At Collocated AMC, AEEC Meetings The insider’s perspective on some of the latest developments in the airline industry was on display during the AMC and AEEC annual meetings, held March 30 to April 2 in Minneapolis...
May 1, 2009
People
Sensis Corp. Appointments Sensis Corp., of Syracuse, N.Y., named Marc Viggiano chief operating officer. Viggiano was most recently senior vice president and chief strategy officer. In his new role, Viggiano is responsible for Sensis Corp. operating areas...
May 1, 2009
Calendar
May 3-6 Army Aviation Association of America Annual Convention, Nashville, Tenn. Contact Quad A, phone 203-268-2450 or visit http://quad-a.org 4-6 Navy League Sea-Air-Space Exposition, Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Md...
May 1, 2009
The Regional View
The volatile oil market and financial meltdown have wreaked havoc on the regional aviation market. Tumbling traffic numbers and rising operating costs have forced U.S. regional carriers to follow the lead of their major airline partners and slash capacity...
May 1, 2009
Avionics Roadmap
Over the past few months, there has been growing interest in the development of improvements in the National Airspace System (NAS) with great emphasis on the near- and mid-term time frames extending to 2018. There is a powerful realization that action is...
May 1, 2009
CAN Bus in Aviation
Controller Area Network (CAN) data bus is a serial communications protocol that supports distributed real-time control with a high level of security. Introduced in the 1980s by Robert Bosch GmbH, the CAN bus was first installed in Mercedes-Benz cars. To...
April 1, 2009
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...
April 1, 2009
Industry Scan
Congress Resumes FAA Reauthorization Effort Long-awaited FAA reauthorization legislation that provides $70 billion to the agency over four years through fiscal 2012, including funding for the NextGen air-traffic control modernization, was progressing through...
April 1, 2009
People
Rusty Roberts Rusty Roberts was named director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Aerospace, Transportation and Advanced Systems (ATAS) laboratory. The laboratory is one of two units based at the Cobb County Research Facility near Dobbins Air...
April 1, 2009
Calendar
April 1-4 Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) 52nd Annual International Convention and Trade Show. Gaylord Texas Resort and Convention Center, Dallas. Contact AEA, phone 816-347-8400 or visit www.aea.net. May 3-6 Army Aviation Association of America Annual...
April 1, 2009
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...
April 1, 2009
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...
April 1, 2009
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...
March 11, 2009
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...
March 1, 2009
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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