ATM ModernizationNew Products Custom Battery Packs Atlantic Components (Atcom) of Woburn, Mass., now offers custom manufactured battery packs that can be made to solve space and design requirements or multiple power source requirements. The battery…
ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: Cross-Wired Controls A Lufthansa A320 came within less than two feet and a few seconds of crashing during takeoff on a planned flight from Frankfurt to Paris. Preliminary reports indicate that maintenance performed on…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan Airbus Buys into Tenzing Tenzing Communications announced at the Paris Air Show that Airbus Industrie has purchased a 30% chunk of the in-flight communications company as part of a deal to offer…
ATM ModernizationSwanwick's Herculean Training Program On Jan. 27, 2002, one of the world’s most ambitious air traffic control (ATC) projects is due to become fully operational. It will have involved the relocation of air traffic management over…
ATM ModernizationHow Test Equipment Gains Intelligence Almost unnoticed, a significant revolution has been going on in the world of test equipment over the last several years. The battle seems to have been largely decided in favor of intelligent…
Business & GATime to Done Your Computers At Federal Express’ (FedEx’s) main hub, in Memphis, Tenn., the cargo carrier’s aircraft line up in workstations for maintenance and inspection. Technicians work diligently, but they don’t scurry about for reference to…
Business & GAAvionics System Design: Designing with LEDs Incandescent lamps have almost vanished from many new avionics designs. Now high-efficiency light emitting diodes (LEDs), especially in white, have become inexpensive and readily available. LEDs are widely used for backlighting pushbuttons,…
ATM ModernizationADS-B for Australia's Outback If you think development activity of the automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) takes place only in the United States, think again. There is, in fact, an ADS-B program being launched on the opposite…