ATM ModernizationQ&A: Capt. Joe Burns: Missile Protectiion: Airline Perspective With every new terrorist incident, the drive to adapt military laser jammers to passenger jets accelerates [October 2005, page 38]. A program, managed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is…
ATM ModernizationSafety: Weather Radar: A Cautionary Tale This is a tale of the best avionics in the world being used incorrectly and therefore ineffectively. The story concerns weather radar and begins with the object lesson: All of the flight…
ATM ModernizationScan NASA Demos Enhanced and Synthetic Vision NASA recently demonstrated BAE Systems' enhanced vision system (EVS) technology on a head-up display (HUD) in the agency's B757 test bed aircraft. BAE showed the ability…
CommercialStandards to Tie Fiber Optics Together Optical fiber will have a bright future in military aviation. It offers high bandwidth, light weight and immunity from electromagnetic interference. It was deployed on the AV-8B decades ago, it's used on…
MilitaryUnique Display: Putting OZ to the Test In October 2003 Avionics Magazine reported on OZ, a revolutionary flight instrument display concept developed at the University of West Florida's (UWF's) Institute for Human and Machine Cognition at Pensacola. Since our…
CommercialSafety: Single Warning For Two Problems From available accounts, a scenario suggests itself for the Aug. 14 crash of the Helios Airways B737-300 near Athens: the aircraft was never fully pressurized to begin with. Why it wasn't fully…
ATM ModernizationScan Joint STARS Upgrade Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems recently completed the Block 20 upgrades to the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft, all of which are assigned to the…
ATM ModernizationAirline Missile Defense Accelerates At A Glance This article discusses: Phase 2 of the federal Counter MANPADS program; Rival onboard anti-missile packages; Plans for Phase 3. Several commercial aircraft types are poised to begin FAA safety…