Technicians at Dassault Falcon Jet’s completion center in Little Rock, Ark., have on this month’s docket the installation in a Falcon 900EX of a new high-speed-data satcom system designed by EMS Technologies. Known as the HSD-128, the data unit is claimed to be the first such system installed by an aircraft OEM for a customer airplane–in this case the wealthy CEO of an Internet company.
In April Dassault installed its first HSD-128 data satcom unit aboard the company’s own Falcon 900EX demonstrator, now busy conducting sales flights from the company’s headquarters at Teterboro (N.J.) Airport. The two-channel system in the demonstrator is married to an EMS Technologies AMT-50 antenna, Cisco router and ISDN and Ethernet ports, providing simultaneous access for Web surfing and voice calls, both of which are said to be noticeably improved over current-generation satcom systems.
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