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...But in the US, the radio frequency band allocated for 5G is closer to the bandwidth used in avionics, the electronic systems used in aircraft and satellites, than in other regions including Europe....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on November 24 2019. @2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A looming concern is upgrades required by regulators to avionics equipment. One key US deadline is the end of the decade....
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...Boeing and Airbus are already encroaching on their suppliers, by moving into avionics, servicing and parts....
...Rockwell Collins, meanwhile, specialises in avionics, the electronics covering communications, navigation and the hundreds of systems on aircraft....
...The Dallas-based company, which makes chips used in everything from personal electronics like mobile phones to industrial end equipment used in space, avionics and defense, saw its shares rise nearly 3 per...
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...This is partly because of the complexity of its innovative Pratt & Whitney engines, but also down to what industry experts describe as one of the most advanced avionics systems available....
...At its vast stand, Panasonic Avionics gives tours of its business-class seat of the future....
...Honeywell was vulnerable in 2000 partly because an unexpected profit warning marred the apparently smooth integration with AlliedSignal, which had bought it in 1999 and taken the Honeywell name....
...The sleek aircraft has a 3m wingspan and is 80 per cent printed, the exceptions being the jet engine, avionics and landing gear....
...Most other components, such as avionics from Rockwell Collins and doors from Airbus Helicopters, will come from proven European and US sources....
...Panasonic Avionics, a provider of satellite WiFi systems, has developed a new low-profile antenna that reduces fuel burn through a 65 per cent reduction in weight and drag....
...industrial giants called off the deal — even in the US, where competition authorities had approved it — when EU authorities ruled it would harm European customers in the market for aircraft engines and avionics...
...It makes no more sense for most people to study computer engineering than it does for air passengers to master avionics. Where does all this leave the Moocs?...
...GE has been investing heavily in China and last year finalised an avionics joint venture with Aviation Industry Corp of China to supply the country’s aircraft industry....
...It is also seeking to develop its $1bn annual turnover business providing avionics for commercial aircraft – for which its principal customer is Boeing, EADS’s bitter rival in the battle for supremacy in...
...An A330-200 aircraft has been fitted with a Panasonic Avionics Global Communications Suite. The so-called sky hub offers full broadband connectivity to access internet, mobile phone and live TV....
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...Kevin Kearns was managing director of Fernau Avionics, a designer and manufacturer of navigational aids for aircraft, when it was bought by Moog Controls, a subsidiary of US-based precision system specialist...
...In the all-too-brief interlude of corporate self-examination that followed the dotcom boom of the late 1990s and the scandals of the early 2000s, Larry Bossidy, hard-headed former chief executive of AlliedSignal...
...GE entered the avionics business in 2007, with the $4.8bn acquisition of Smiths Aerospace....
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