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Editor's Note: Bats and Air Traffic Control

Ever wonder how bats–thousands of bats–are able to fly within the confines of a pitch-black cave without bumping into each other? No? Well, maybe you should–especially as a two-word phrase becomes more…

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Airborne Silent Movies In your "Outlook" coverage in the January 2001 issue (page 30), you say in-flight movies go back more than 35 years. In fact, they go back much more than…

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One-on-One with Smiths Aerospace's John Ferrie

Smiths Aerospace is a company on the move. Last year, it forged ahead aggressively, acquiring three companies and announcing the merger with TI Group Plc, further consolidating Europe’s top tier of aerospace…

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Product Focus: Air Traffic Control Switches

Most people think of a switch as something small and simple–something that can be manipulated by a finger. Not so in an air traffic control (ATC) center. The ground-based megaswitches for ATC…

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ATN and the Reluctance to Accept the Inevitable

The Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (ATN) will shoulder no small amount of responsibility. Quite simply, it is being developed to interconnect all operational components of civil aviation, both air and ground, through a…

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Editor's Note: How Far Will ATC Privatization Go?

It appears the United Kingdom will carry through with the partial privatization of its National Air Traffic Services (NATS) organization. Will the United States do the same with the Federal Aviation Administration’s…

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Definitely Not First An article titled "Resourceful Rafale" appeared in the September 2000 issue of Avionics Magazine (page 16) and included the following statement on page 21: "The Thomson-CSF SB25A is said…

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New Products

dataMARS104 Ampol Technologies Ltd. has introduced the dataMARS104 for monitoring, recording and analyzing aircraft avionics communications data. The modular system includes a flight data recorder unit, integrated removable recording media, and ground…