Military

Policy Controlled Radio: Making Room in the Spectrum

Today new wireless technologies struggle for bandwidth. The spectrum is crowded with incumbents, some of whom have paid huge sums to operate in their bands. Communications companies reportedly have spent $20 billion…

Business & GA

Reducing Mode Errors Through Design

Technology has allowed avionics manufacturers to build more features into smaller pieces of equipment. While this enables sophisticated systems for smaller aircraft, it raises the level of interface complexity and increases the…

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Marking the B747 FAA has certified STG Aerospace's SafTGlo photoluminescent (PL) floorpath marking system for the Boeing 747-400. It's the first FAA certification of a PL system on a multideck aircraft. Visit…

Business & GA

Perspectives: Human Factors: Test Pilot's Viewpoint

The development of new avionics systems is an unusual discipline. It is highly technical but subtly different from traditional "engineering." When engineers say they understand something, they mean they can model it.…

Commercial

Safety: A 'Shambolic' Situation

"Shambolic" is an appropriate term for the following case involving wiring, circuit breakers and electrical system design. The expression is British slang for a disorderly or chaotic situation, which is to say…

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A380 IFE Thales has demonstrated its TopSeries in-flight entertainment (IFE) system for the Airbus A380 at the Hamburg, Germany, test lab. The audio and video on-demand system will be the first passenger…

Business & GA

Agusta Westland’s EH101

Search and rescue (SAR) crewmen are a special breed. So are their aircraft. Consider, for example, the U.S. Coast Guard crewmen who won the 2004 Rotor & Wing magazine Heroism Award. Over…

ATM Modernization

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February 21-23 UV (Unmanned Vehicle) Asia-Pacific 2005, The Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore. Contact Shephard Group, phone +44 (0) 1628 604311 or visit www.shephard.co.uk/events. 23-25 Random Vibration and Shock Testing, a short course held…