The ATV has two major divisions - a pressurised payload unit, and an avionics and propulsion unit.

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Goodrich enlisted when he was just 18, and went into Afghanistan as an avionics technician servicing the AWACs planes that guide fighters and bombers.

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After graduating design school in 1979, I got my first real job (in aviation of course), as an illustrator with Bendix Avionics.

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Though disabling an aircraft's avionics will obviously cause it to crash, in many other cases, no direct harm is done to people at all.

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The fire broke out in the avionics compartment of an empty Dreamliner shortly after it had arrived and passengers had disembarked.

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He suggests that a remanufactured Cessna 172 with a new engine (that burns something other than the diminishing supply of 100LL), new avionics, new paint and an updated interior might cost about half the price of a brand new one.

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Sukhoi, or some of its subcontractors for avionics and other components, almost surely trades on an exchange.

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We are also getting a number of design wins in avionics, and in one example the Japanese space agency is using an MRAM chip in a satellite launched into orbit early this year to measure carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

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