Embedded AvionicsSmart Sensors Expand in Variety, Scope As the aviation industry drives toward predictive maintenance and operational and aftermarket efficiencies, intelligent sensors have expanded in variety and scope. Meanwhile the overall defense and aerospace
CommercialEtihad's International ADS-B Upgrade Strategy At the 2018 AMC/AEEC annual conference, an ADS-B symposium allowed Avionics to gain a first-person perspective on ADS-B mandate compliance upgrades from an Etihad Airways engineer that is on the ground dealing
Business & GAAEE: Must-Know Avionics Mandates Here are progress updates, challenges and new capabilities for avionics equipage in European airspace you should know about. ADS-B Regulation Under Review The European Regions Airline Association (ERA), a
CommercialJuneyao Completes China’s First ADS-B In Flight Trial The demonstration was performed using three Airbus A321s on approach to Shanghai’s Hongquiao International Airport. Each of the A321s was equipped with cockpit displays that enabled the use of air traffic
ConnectivityAvionics Supercomputers of the Future The ROCK-2 system from Mercury Systems designed for avionics missions is a good example. It measures (without connectors) just 4.88 by 7.63 by up to 13.18 inches. Yet within this unit, it…
Business & GASynthetic Vision for Commercial Airliners: Seeing is Believing At 7:53 p.m., Feb. 14, 2018, Boeing Flight Services Campus in Miami, Florida, strapping into the cockpit of a Boeing 787 full-flight simulator, I along with Boeing Associate Technical Fellow Jim Wilkerson…
ConnectivityBeating the Heat for Emerging Electronics On the leading edge are programs like Intrachip/Interchip Enhanced Cooling (ICECool), the recently completed effort by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to miniaturize and embed cooling
MilitaryBoeing to Flight Test Software Update on KC-46A The U.S. Air Force said it learned that two of the plane’s systems in its KC-46A tanker program — the Centerline Drogue System (CDS) and the Remote Vision System (RVS) — are not…