Maintenance Aspects of Modern Avionics

Abstract

All of us, who are working in this highly interesting field of Avionics, have the same feeling of superiority. We all know that our technology is the heart and soul of today's air transport success. We have enough sense of reality to admit, that in the past, starting with the Wright brothers up to the 1950's, Aviation was dominated by aeronautical engineers. We admit that they really did a good construction job on airframes, wings, engines and so on, but the real thing only started when electronic engineers became interested in Aviation. So in order to prove to those who dispute our growing importance, I thought some trend figures on the rapidly increasing avionics investment percentage, of the basic aircraft purchase price, would be simple and definitely convincing.

Citation

Brouwer, I.W. (1983), "Maintenance Aspects of Modern Avionics", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 55 No. 8, pp. 2-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb035887