Latest Articles by Jonathan Ray

Commercial

Counter MANPADS: Live-fire finale?

After four years of test and development, the two systems competing to protect commercial aircraft from man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) will get a chance to prove themselves against live fire this…

Business & GA

Glassed-In

It’s hard to believe, but in August, glass cockpits in production civil aircraft will have been in use for a quarter of a century. On Aug. 19, 1982, I and other aviation…

Military

Military: Airborne, Networked Radio

As the U.S. military moved out of the shadows of the Cold War and into the global war on terror, it became apparent that new tactics and technologies would be needed to…

Business & GA

Q&A: Achieving NextGen: RTCA’s Vision

Organized in 1935 as the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics, RTCA develops consensus-based recommendations that are used by FAA as the basis for policy, program and regulatory decisions. The private, not-for-profit corporation…

Business & GA

Product Focus: Connectors

Customers’ ever-present demands of more, cheaper, lighter and faster are prompting a wave of high-density interconnect devices, particularly in the commercial and military aviation sectors. Aviation connector companies say faster, lighter options…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Software Upgrade Avidyne, Lincoln, Mass., released a software upgrade for its EX500 multifunction displays (MFD). The company said the software expands the range of XM WX Satellite Weather data displayed and simplifies…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Development Kit Acqiris, Monroe, N.Y., released its firmware development kit (FDK), which simplifies application development on the embedded field programmable gate array (FPGA) of its SC240/210 streamer analyzers and AC240/210 analyzers. The…

Commercial

Product Focus: Flight Data Recorders

Interconnectivity of avionics, including flight data recorders (FDR), is of prime importance to aircraft operators because it offers rapid data transfer rates and significant time savings. Thanks to increased use of Ethernet…