alioth wrote:
I wonder if it’s a coincidence that Garmin ended up in Olathe, KS – where Bendix-King already was….
It is no coincidence.
“Garmin Corporation was formed in Taiwan in January 1990 by two electrical engineers, Gary Burrell and Dr. Min Kao. (The company’s name is derived from the first names of the founders.) Burrell and Kao had been employed by Kansas-based King Radio Corporation, a maker of radios and aircraft navigation equipment, which was acquired by Allied Corp. (later Allied Signal) in 1985”
This is even better:
This is the “XYZ” system for transmitting heading data around the aircraft. I have not been able to find a free copy of this document – despite its age!
Slightly more recent is ARINC429 where Label 320 is used, within a 32 bit packet, but that system is just as weird. They just could not resist numbering the bits differently to “computer conventions”.
Stec is last age…. if not stc noone would buy it.
