ATM Modernization

Safety: Long Glide Down the 'Garden Path'

How many pilots would react to a high oil pressure reading by checking for a fuel leak? One would have to be Dick Tracy with a degree in abstract intricacies from Sherlock…

ATM Modernization

Scan

EVS Developments Once again, the most newsworthy technology at the National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) show was enhanced vision systems (EVS). It dominated the avionics news at the 2002 and 2003 NBAA…

Military

Product Focus: 1553: Ever Faster

Efforts to drive throughput on the Mil-Std-1553 bus are accelerating, as another company enters the arena. Will there be a "Mil-Std-1553C" standard next year? Although data buses are hidden away in the…

Editor's Note

Calendar

December 15-16 UV (Unmanned Vehicle) North America 2004, Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Washington, D.C. Contact Shephard Group, phone +44 (0) 1628 604311 or visit www.shephard.co.uk/events. January 19-20 WAEA Technology Committee and Working…

ATM Modernization

Editor’s Note: Steering Clear of a Perfect Storm

Has the U.S. aviation industry entered a "perfect storm"? That dire analogy is how one speaker at the recent Air Traffic Controllers Association (ATCA) conference described the current whirlwind of change taking…

Editor's Note

Feedback

Hoping for a Standard In the July issue (page 28) Kathleen Kocks did a good job summarizing the spectrum tug of war that goes on today. But I thought it would be…

ATM Modernization

New Products

Satcom Antenna Tecom Industries Inc., a Smiths Interconnect company in Thousand Oaks, Calif., recently unveiled the latest addition to its line of satcom antennas. The HGA-9000 high-gain, electronically steered antenna accommodates Inmarsat's…

Business & GA

Editor’s Note: Tail Wagging The Dog?

The 21st century, we are told, will be "the century of Asia." Just as Europe dominated economically in the 19th century, and North America prevailed in the 20th century, so it is…