ATM ModernizationFeedback Integration is the Future I was disappointed in your Outlook 2000 (January) issue of Avionics Magazine, which purported to give the reader "a heads up on upcoming trends in the avionics field."…
ATM ModernizationPeople Smiths Industries: Ferrie, Head of Aerospace Smiths Industries has designated John Ferrie as the new head of Smiths Industries Aerospace, following Norman Barber’s retirement at the end of the current financial year,…
ATM ModernizationNew Products Modular Measuring System Kaman Instrumentation Operations, a unit of Kaman Aerospace Corp., introduced its Series 8000 modular measuring system for noncontact positioning sensing. The product performs at a resolution of at least…
ATM ModernizationSafety in Avionics: The Fallacies of Free Flight More, not less, top-down control of the national airspace system (NAS) is seen as the solution to the rising tide of flight delays. What does that say about the concept of Free…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan L-3, Sextant Buy TCAS from Honeywell As part of the post-merger plan to divest the overlapping products of Honeywell and AlliedSignal, Honeywell agreed in March to sell its traffic alert and collision…
ATM ModernizationAvionics System Design: Lab Magic Ever so often, a design or test project gets bogged down because some aspect of the lab work hits a brick wall. The method for getting past such a problem is not…
Business & GASafety in Avionics: Pilot Traps in the Cockpit A modern cockpit should be more like an observation tower than a minefield. That is, it should be designed in such a way that pilots have a clear view of aircraft performance…
ATM ModernizationIndustry Scan FlightSafety Boeing Fields B737 Flight Simulators FlightSafety Boeing Training International LLC intends to satisfy global demand for Next Generation B737 simulator training by delivering six new Next-Generation 737 full-flight simulators to training…