Avionics
Better avionics, thanks to cellphones?
It’s certainly a comforting feeling, watching the avionics techs remove old black boxes from your airplane and replace them with the latest units on the ma

It’s certainly a comforting feeling, watching the avionics techs remove old black boxes from your airplane and replace them with the latest units on the market. You’ll now enjoy much better performance, vastly improved reliability, great warranty support and the latest technology that money can buy–but not for long.

The pace of electronics technology isn’t just moving rapidly ahead; it’s zooming. That is possibly why manufacturers no longer brag that the products they are introducing into the market are “state of the art.” These days, almost anything electronic that’s in production is actually “state of yesterday’s art,” a fact underscored by a personal computer company official, who acknowledged that even before the newest machines have entered full production, engineers are adding even newer technology to their planned replacements.