MilitaryNew Missions For The Hawkeye The U.S. Navy wants to expand the role of its Hawkeye aircraft to include coastal area surveillance and theater air and missile defense (TAMD). This is no small order for an airplane…
Business & GAEditor’s Note: ANSPs’ Desire To Cooperate Cooperation is “not a sentiment — it is an economic necessity.” So said Charles Steinmetz, the inventor of alternating current. In that vein members of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organization (CANSO)…
ATM ModernizationLink 2000+: CPDLC System Steams Ahead While the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) controller pilot data link communication (CPDLC) program in Miami cools on the proverbial back burner, Eurocontrol’s CPDLC program steams ahead with Link 2000+. Some 25…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Single-Board Computer General Micro Systems, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., has announced the Spider, which it claims to be the world’s smallest single-board computer (SBC). Measuring 2.8 by 1.9 inches (7.1 by 4.8 cm),…
Business & GAProduct Focus: ARINC 653 and RTOS If real-time operating systems (RTOS) are the heart of safety-critical, air transport avionics, then ARINC 653 is at the heart’s core. RTOS conformance to the low-level capabilities described in the specification allows…
Editor's NoteEditor’s Note: A Pause For Fresh Thought As the rush continues to equip U.S. commercial aircraft with anti-missile systems developed for the military, a broader perspective of the threat and how to deal with it is emerging. Given the…
MilitaryWill Projection Displays Give F-35 an Edge? Prime contractor Lockheed Martin and avionics provider Rockwell Collins are placing a calculated bet that their new flight deck projection display technology for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will result in…
ATM ModernizationFeedback Wrestling with the FMC I read your article entitled "Bad Figures, Dangerous Results" (April 2004, page 51). The continuing occurrences of tail strikes due to bad data in the flight management computer…
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