Business & GACockpit Comebacks With the current backlog for new aircraft extending to more than a year’s wait, more business cases are being made to retrofit avionics into legacy aircraft. Cockpit display retrofits, featuring all-digital avionics,…
Business & GAQ&A: AEEC Reorganizes, Looks To The Future Dennis Zvacek is manager of Avionics Engineering with American Airlines, and serves as chairman of AEEC, the ARINC conference formerly called the Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee. Zvacek first put his love of…
Business & GAProduct Focus: ATE The automatic test equipment industry has entered what some ATE engineers say is a new golden age. With a plethora of new civil and military aircraft being developed, an imperative to transition…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Weather Receiver WSI Corp., Andover, Mass., introduced its WSI InFlight AV-300 datalink weather receiver and AV-350, a cockpit weather system enabling aircraft operators to receive WSI’s weather content plus Sirius Satellite Radio…
Business & GAPerspectives: VoIP Pros and Cons Much has been written and spoken about implementing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for aeronautical applications. Leading this charge are aeronautical communications service providers and product manufacturers, hyping and promoting VoIP for…
CommercialBoeing Signs Up Six for Monitoring Unit Boeing said six airlines adopted its in-flight monitoring system in the first half of the year, bringing to 15 the number of airlines and freight carriers to sign for the program. Airlines,…
Business & GAAeroVironment Founder Dies Founder and former chairman of AeroVironment, Paul MacCready, died Tuesday. MacCready founded Monrovia, Calif.-based AeroVironment in 1971. This month, the company celebrated the 30th anniversary of the record-setting flight of the human…
Editor's NoteVMETRO Buys Micro Memory Norway-based VMETRO will acquire Micro Memory LLC, a privately held Chatsworth, Calif.-based provider of board-level products for streaming signal and image processing, real-time data acquisition, memory nodes and Enterprise Network Storage. Financial…