MilitaryA Herculean Upgrade Like Hercules, its mythical namesake, the C-130 airlifter is powerful and versatile. Capable of operating from rough, dirt air strips, the four-engine turboprop has been used to ferry troops into war zones,…
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…
Business & GAEditor’s Note: Building The Brand Brad Foreman, the former Marine Corps pilot who heads Thales Aerospace Activities in the United States, sees the Thales logo displayed when he passes through Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, and…
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,…