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[News] Aviation Industry Takes Its Software Open Source

  • Subject: [News] Aviation Industry Takes Its Software Open Source
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:01:42 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
VIDEO - Open Source, scavenged hardware, powers life-sized 747 simulator

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| Retired Air Force pilot John Wojnaroski can’t seem to get away from flying 
| and he’s been constructing the “ultimate” flight simulator with authentic 
| screens, switches and even throttle controls.  Using scavenged passenger jet 
| parts and the “FlightGear” open source simulator platform, Wojnaroski’s 
| simulator can emulate most jumbo jets and can even perform instrument 
| approaches along with around the world flights.     
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/36036/113/

Avionica Releases Iridium Portal Technology Under Open Source

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| Avionica, a provider of flight data management solutions, has released 
| Iridium Portal product source code to the aviation community. 
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http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1251467/avionica_releases_iridium_portal_technology_under_open_source/


Recent:

TOPCASED: System development using Open Source

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| Led by aircraft manufacturer Airbus, several companies located in the French 
| Aerospace Valley close to Toulouse have, therefore, formed a consortium and 
| initiated the TOPCASED Open Source project to create the necessary system 
| development tools. TOPCASED is an acronym for Toolkit in Open source for 
| Critical Applications & Systems Development.    
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/TOPCASED-System-development-using-Open-Source--/features/110028


Avionica Releases Iridium(TM) Portal Technology Under Open Source License

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| In its present state, the Iridium satellite system cannot accept pre- emptive 
| Air Traffic Control calls to the cockpit (does not support call waiting). 
| Avionica's Iridium(TM) Portal technology provides this capability.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| Avionica will be releasing the Iridium(TM) Portal technology under the GNU 
| GPLv3 license.  
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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-avionica-releases-iridiumtm-portal-technology-under-open-source-/2008/02/07/3256848.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3dyjpe


Related:

Airbus is banking on open source

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| Mr. Ladier said that open source had meanwhile attained such a
| degree of maturity that it was now a credible solution for the
| creation of innovative, reliable system development tools
| designed to be maintained over long periods of time.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/82898/from/rss09

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