DocumentCode
2924892
Title
What´s next for airliner telephones?
Author
Benz, Glen E.
Author_Institution
Teledyne Systems Co., Los Angeles, CA, USA
fYear
1992
fDate
21-23 Jan 1992
Firstpage
71
Lastpage
74
Abstract
It is projected that what´s next for airliner telephones is a phone for every seat in first class and for every row in coach. What´s next for airliner telephone reliability is the use of spreadsheet matrix inversion routines to analyze strings of phone failures and policies of dispatch with degraded redundancy. What´s next for airliner telephone maintainability is a concept of restoring some redundancy while the aircraft is being cleaned for its next day of use. It is concluded that telephone calls on an airliner will become much easier to place and that airliner availability need not decrease because of that increased phone accessibility. It is shown that circuit redundancy and dispatch policies can reduce processing unavailability to any desired level. It is demonstrated that unavailability for the added phones and repeaters can be reduced to a very `small number using idle time
Keywords
aircraft communication; failure analysis; maintenance engineering; radiotelephony; reliability; technological forecasting; RAM; airliner telephones; availability; dispatch policies; failure analysis; idle time; maintainability; redundancy; reliability; repeaters; spreadsheet matrix inversion routines; technological forecasting; telephone calls; Aircraft; Availability; Circuits; FCC; Redundancy; Repeaters; Samarium; Spreadsheet programs; Switches; Telephony;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 1992. Proceedings., Annual
Conference_Location
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN
0-7803-0521-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ARMS.1992.187801
Filename
187801
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