ACARSstands forAircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System. It is an electronic transmission system using VHF radio signals that allowed an aircraft to broadcast identification data to ground station receivers. Some individuals have monitored and archived ACARS and SBS radio transmissions which c...
Many have come to associate drones with the looming unmanned aircraft deployed in the defense industry, but as technology continues to improve drones have gotten smaller and progressively less expensive. Consumers can now purchase their very own drone for as little as $600 or less and the technolo...
The communications control is battery-powered and can be switched from intercom to transmit functions. You can either push to talk and release to listen or have a continuously open communication line. To talk with spacewalkers, the system uses a UHF frequency, which is picked up in the ...
For Cathay Pacific, ensuring the safety of customers, aircrew, ground staff and aircraft came first. Next: how to minimise disruption for thousands of customers? Hong Kong is a hub. Bet on the ‘wet weekend’ scenario and planeloads of people might fly in for a connectin...
On days of heavier cloud cover when ground cameras will be obscured, two WB-57 aircraft will film the shuttle from high altitude as it ascends. Three radar tracking facilities (one with C-band and two with Doppler radar) will monitor the shuttle to detect debris. New digital video cameras ...
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The communications control is battery-powered and can be switched from intercom to transmit functions. You can either push to talk and release to listen or have a continuously open communication line. To talk with spacewalkers, the system uses a UHF frequency, which is picked up in the ...
In 1951, when international air travel really started totake off,theInternational Civil Aviation Organization(ICAO) recommended that English be the standard language for aviation communications.Why English?At the time, the US and UK manufactured and operated the majority of the world’s aircraft. Nat...
(of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide) points out in an excellent introductorybookon the subject, the technology ismucholder. Hansen traces it back to experiments with telephones in 1878, and notes that the first patents were issued (separately) to Romanian aircraft ...