Here's this week's cover of Flight International, featuring our special report on the US NextGen air traffic management system. Links to the cover articles are below.
Main Features
Big changes are taking place in the management of the USA's national airspace system. The country's NextGen initiative is designed to make air traffic control more efficient, safer, and environmentally friendly, from the ramp all the way to final touchdown. We report on how the Federal Aviation Administration is engineering such a revolutionary procedure and look closely at the technologies being used in the process and the benefits they will bring to airlines, airports and passengers.
FAA's new NextGen vector: blue sky thinking; blue collar action
The US Federal Aviation Administration has adopted a pragmatic approach to the future of its national airspace system, based on a desired mid-term outcome that makes the best of technologies already available and gives industry a leading role in showing the way forward, largely through a wide array of demonstration programmes...
New York Kennedy airport trial provides glimpse into the future of airport ground operations
Two pairs of binoculars still sit on the window sill at the Japan Airlines flight operations office overlooking New York Kennedy airport Terminal 1. But Joseph Gutierrez, who began his career at JAL 22 years ago as a dispatcher and is now JAL's director of flight operations at Kennedy, does not need his binoculars any more. In early May JAL became one of three carriers at the airport to begin testing Sensis Aerobahn, a real-time surface position tool...
ITT's NextGen backbone prepares for lifting
Why ADS-B?
From the US Federal Aviation Administration's perspective, automatic dependent surveillance - broadcast is meant to reduce dependence on ground-based secondary surveillance radar systems by collecting GPS-derived position reports from ADS-B equipped aircraft at ground stations and sending the information (ADS-B "out"), to air traffic control facilities to be used for air traffic management....
Ground alert
The US Federal Aviation Administration's funding of new automatic dependent surveillance - broadcast tests in the autumn moves management of aircraft in the airport surface environment beyond simple visual awareness to actual alerts of potential runway conflicts. This could create a step change in the approach pilots take to managing airport surface conflict detection....
GE's optimal approach
GE Aviation believes tests it has already conducted with SAS in Stockholm in optimal trajectory descent management are easily adaptable to carriers that now use its flight management system...
Additional Cover Articles
F-22 stealth coatings face legal scrutiny
A pending lawsuit by a Lockheed Martin-trained stealth expert may provide new perspective on concerns about the F-22's low observable, or stealth, systems...
Boeing makes move for Vought's 787 plant
Boeing is poised to take control of a key portion of its 787 supply chain through the acquisition of the Vought Aircraft Industries business in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Main FeaturesBig changes are taking place in the management of the USA's national airspace system. The country's NextGen initiative is designed to make air traffic control more efficient, safer, and environmentally friendly, from the ramp all the way to final touchdown. We report on how the Federal Aviation Administration is engineering such a revolutionary procedure and look closely at the technologies being used in the process and the benefits they will bring to airlines, airports and passengers.
FAA's new NextGen vector: blue sky thinking; blue collar action
The US Federal Aviation Administration has adopted a pragmatic approach to the future of its national airspace system, based on a desired mid-term outcome that makes the best of technologies already available and gives industry a leading role in showing the way forward, largely through a wide array of demonstration programmes...
New York Kennedy airport trial provides glimpse into the future of airport ground operations
Two pairs of binoculars still sit on the window sill at the Japan Airlines flight operations office overlooking New York Kennedy airport Terminal 1. But Joseph Gutierrez, who began his career at JAL 22 years ago as a dispatcher and is now JAL's director of flight operations at Kennedy, does not need his binoculars any more. In early May JAL became one of three carriers at the airport to begin testing Sensis Aerobahn, a real-time surface position tool...
ITT's NextGen backbone prepares for lifting
Two years after signing a contract to create the surveillance
backbone for the next generation air transport system (NextGen), the US
Federal Aviation Administration is about to reap early benefits from
its $1.8 billion baby. In test programmes about to get under way in at least four
locations, avionics makers, aircraft operators and airlines along with
the FAA are set to begin experimenting with critical features of the
first online network of automatic dependent surveillance...
Why ADS-B?
From the US Federal Aviation Administration's perspective, automatic dependent surveillance - broadcast is meant to reduce dependence on ground-based secondary surveillance radar systems by collecting GPS-derived position reports from ADS-B equipped aircraft at ground stations and sending the information (ADS-B "out"), to air traffic control facilities to be used for air traffic management....
Ground alert
The US Federal Aviation Administration's funding of new automatic dependent surveillance - broadcast tests in the autumn moves management of aircraft in the airport surface environment beyond simple visual awareness to actual alerts of potential runway conflicts. This could create a step change in the approach pilots take to managing airport surface conflict detection....
GE's optimal approach
GE Aviation believes tests it has already conducted with SAS in Stockholm in optimal trajectory descent management are easily adaptable to carriers that now use its flight management system...
Additional Cover Articles
F-22 stealth coatings face legal scrutiny
A pending lawsuit by a Lockheed Martin-trained stealth expert may provide new perspective on concerns about the F-22's low observable, or stealth, systems...
Boeing makes move for Vought's 787 plant
Boeing is poised to take control of a key portion of its 787 supply chain through the acquisition of the Vought Aircraft Industries business in Charleston, South Carolina.
Here you can subscribe to the print edition or digital edition of Flight International.
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