Editor's NoteCalendar November 10-11 Airport, Port and Terminal Security Exhibition and Conference (APTS 2004), Olympia 2, London. Contact Michael Costain, International Business Events, phone +44 1892 614 166 or visit www.apts-expo.com. 15-16 Link 16,…
Business & GAEditor’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…
MilitaryMEMS and Atomic Clocks This past August, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled a development that could deliver a thousand-fold performance improvement over the quartz crystal clocks used in many communication…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Tail-Mounted Satcom Antenna Chelton Inc., Lewisville, Texas, has released what it claims is the world's smallest and lightest Inmarsat-approved, multichannel Aero-H/H+ and Swift64 antenna. The HGA-6000 is a high-gain antenna (HGA) designed…
ATM ModernizationPeople Founder and President Dies The founder and president of Universal Avionics Systems Corp. (UASC), Hubert Naimer, died on Sept. 12 at the age of 82. Austrian-born, he was in Vienna at the…
CommercialSafety: Dysfunctional Doors The biggest piece of avionics-related equipment to be installed recently in transport-category aircraft isn't on the instrument panel in front of the pilots. It's behind them: the hardened, electrically locked cockpit doors…
ATM ModernizationFeedback New Perspective of Lead-Free I read with interest the September Editor's Note on lead-free avionics (page 6) and the Safety column in the same issue (page 55) on tin whiskers. In the…
Business & GAIntegrated Avionics: Plug & Play The cursor control devices, pull-down menus and point-and-click controls in today's bizjet cockpits remind us of PCs. Under the hood, in a corporate-owned airplane's processing cabinets, the similarities persist, with integrated architectures…
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