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In-flight Internet access... and mobile phones too?

I read a business article in the Economist ( ‘Mobile Phones on planes – Your call’ ) during the Christmas holidays about the current developments in passenger in-flight systems...

17 years 5 months ago

In-Service Evidence

The UK Ministry of Defence recently announced that its Chinook helicopter HC3 variants will undergo a £90.1m ($181m) upgrade. The press release itself is rather brief, but the...

17 years 5 months ago

Drive by Ethernet?

I read last week that BMW has been researching the use of the Internet Protocol (IP) over standard Ethernet (Cisco) to network automotive controllers ( ‘BMW brings Internet...

17 years 6 months ago

Military Aerospace & Electronics Show

Yesterday, I attended the UK’s Military Aerospace & Electronics technical conference and exhibition, which was held at the Heritage Motor Centre . The technical conference was...

17 years 6 months ago

Vulcan Returns to the Skies

I’ve been trying to keep track of aerospace news recently by using using various Google Alerts and subscribing to news feeds, but one story I nearly missed during the build up to...

17 years 7 months ago

Prize: Lunar X

You’ve heard about it, haven’t you? The Google Lunar X prize? The X-Prize foundation seeks to encourage radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In case you don’t know or...

17 years 8 months ago

ARINC 653 Partition Jitter & Scalability

Last week, I was looking at a customer’s avionics software architecture to determine whether it might be possible to migrate this to an ARINC 653-based Integrated Modular Avionics...

17 years 9 months ago

Matterhorn helicopter flight

I’ve always wanted to go on a helicopter flight since my brother told me about his trip in a UK Royal Navy Agusta Westland Lynx , an amazingly agile helicopter, which still holds...

17 years 9 months ago

Mars Update

Though we haven’t seen a lot of Mars in the news lately, for those who keep track, the past couple of months have been somewhat stressful. A sandstorm started on Mars over a month...

17 years 10 months ago

Up from the Ashes...

July 4th 1997 NASA did something spectacular: demonstrated a bunch of new technologies and delivered a space craft to the surface of another planet. Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars...

17 years 11 months ago