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4 unusual facts about avionics


Amethi

Amethi also boasts of the Avionics Division of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, the organisation responsible for manufacture of Aircraft for Indian Airforce.

Diamond DA20

In November 2008 the company announced that it would be offering an Aspen Avionics glass cockpit primary flight display as an option on the DA20.

John M. Picard

Picard is married to Tara Riley Picard (a General Manager of Avionics at Sikorsky Aircraft.)

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

The centre pursues research and development in a host of distinct technology domains including Aeronautics, Avionics, Composites, etc. primarily for the purpose of advancing launch vehicle technology.


Airbus A330 MRTT

Standard commercial A330-200s are delivered from Airbus Final Assembly Line in Toulouse (France) to Airbus Military Conversion Centre in Getafe, Spain for fitting of refuelling systems and military avionics.

Aircraft industry of Russia

Irkut has a portfolio of trainer and amphibious aircraft projects and competes in the onboard electronics and avionics niche.

Andrew P. Witt

Andrew Paul Witt (born 1982) is a former Senior Airman in the United States Air Force who was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of a fellow Airman and his wife in 2004, while he was an avionics technician in the 116th Air Control Wing at Robins Air Force Base.

ARINC 828

In avionics, ARINC 828 defines Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) interfaces used in all types of aircraft.

ARP4754

ARP4754 The Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) ARP4754A (Guidelines For Development Of Civil Aircraft and Systems ), is a guideline from SAE International, dealing with the development processes which support certification of Aircraft systems.

Avidyne Corporation

Avidyne Corporation is an avionics company based in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Boeing E-6 Mercury

The first E-6 made its maiden flight from Boeing's Renton Factory on 19 February 1987, when it was flown to Boeing Field, Seattle, for fitment of mission avionics, being delivered to the Navy for testing on 22 July 1988.

BonNova

The BonNova rocket team for the Lunar Lander Challenge was led by their chief engineer, Allen Newcomb, a rocket engineer with a career background of combined experience in avionics and design for extreme environments that can expose equipment to extreme heat such as oil wells, and race cars with brutal vibrations and extreme EMI

Crewe Toll

A major aerospace facility is situated in the area, the Selex ES facility (formerly the avionics division of Ferranti, then GEC-Marconi, then BAE Systems, then SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems, then SELEX Galileo) has been in this location since the 1940s.

Dynon Avionics

Dynon's instruments are not certified under FAA TSO spcifications, and are developed for Experimental aircraft, Homebuilt aircraft, and Light Sport aircraft that include the avionics as part of their approved equipment during LSA certification.

Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH

The company offers professional services primarily in the Automotive, Aviation, Logistics, and Military sectors.

Embraer KC-390

On 5 May 2011, Embraer stated that it had selected Rockwell Collins to provide its Pro Line Fusion Avionics System with Liquid Crystal Displays, Integrated Flight Information Systems (IFIS) with electronic charts and enhanced maps, advanced Flight Management Systems (FMS) with Wide Area Augmentation System, and an Information Management System (IMS) to manage databases and facilitate data transfer with the ground infrastructure.

Fighter Wing: A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing

With an overview of the evolution of air power such as aircraft engines, stealth, avionics, sensors, and onboard displays, it also briefly introduces the B-2 Spirit and the F-22 Raptor.

Gulfstream G200

The Galaxy was based on a new wider fuselage, attached to a strengthened Astra SPX wing with integrated winglets and modified high lift devices, powered by new 5,700 lb (25.3 kN) thrust Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306 turbofans, and with improved Pro Line 4 avionics and all-new interior.

Indian Civil Aviation Airshow

Top honchos of the aviation industry from India and abroad were a part of the event, including Air India CMD Raghu Menon, Kingfisher Airlines chief Vijay Mallya, former US FAA Administrator Marion C Blakey, AAI chief K Ramalingam, EADS CEO Yves Guillame, GoAir MD Jehangir Wadia, Air Arabia CEO Adel Ali and top-brass of various airport operators, engine, avionics and aircraft manufacturers like Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier and Bell Helicopters.

Jet fighter generations

Various features in jet fighters are described in terms of "generations", whereby a typical jet fighter of a given generation tends to have a certain class of engines, avionics, etc., and a typical jet fighter of the succeeding generation tends to have a different (and superior) set of engines, avionics, etc.

Mobile phones on aircraft

As of mid April 2007 Qantas teamed up with Panasonic Avionics Corporation and AeroMobile to commence a three-month trial that would "enable customers to send and receive e-mails, access the Internet and send and receive text messages from their own mobile phone".

Najica Blitz Tactics

Najica is also an expert helicopter pilot, and she has a custom-modified Mil Mi-35 Hind assault helicopter with remote control and advanced avionics.

NASA Pathfinder

The new center section was topped by more-efficient silicon solar cells developed by SunPower Corporation of Sunnyvale, California, which could convert almost 19 percent of the solar energy they receive to useful electrical energy to power the craft's motors, avionics and communication systems.

Nicholas Byron Cavadias

In 1956, he relocated to Canada, where he took a position with Montreal-based avionics company Canadian Aviation Electronics Ltd.(CAE).

No. 82 Wing RAAF

 82 Wing, the F-111 underwent numerous upgrades, including the Pave Tack infra-red and laser-guided precision weapons targeting system, Harpoon anti-shipping missiles, and advanced digital avionics.

Oakley, Dorset

The community is home to mainly middle- and upper-middle-class families with a proportion of the adults being employed by Cobham plc in the field of Defence, Avionics and Surveillance Systems.

Tupolev Tu-204

Certified in January, 1995, this initial version is powered by Soloviev (now Aviadvigatel) PS90 turbofans with 157 kN (35,300 lbf) of thrust, and uses Russian avionics in addition to its Russian engines.

U.S. Military connector specifications

Often referred to as a Micro-D connector system, the connector is suited to a multitude of systems where weight, miniaturization or signal transmission integrity are paramount, such as missiles and their guidance systems, aerospace avionics, radars, shoulder-launched weapon systems, advanced soldier technology systems, military Global Positioning Systems, satellites, medical devices and down-hole drilling tools.

Universal Avionics

Universal Avionics Systems Corporation is an international company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.

VIPER microprocessor

VIPER is a 32-bit microprocessor design created by Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in the 1980s, intended for use in safety-critical systems such as avionics.

XtratuM

In the case of embedded systems, particularly avionics systems, the ARINC 653 standard deļ¬nes a partitioning scheme.


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