snapshot Home again A NATO Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS, aircraft, with its signature rotating radome, arrives at Boeing Field in Seattle last month for a major flight-deck and avionics upgrade. It was a homecoming of sorts for the aircraft, which is a highly modified version of the Boeing 707 once built in Renton, Wash. Boeing will upgrade one AWACS aircraft each for the NATO and the U.S. Air Force fleets under an engineering, manufacturing and development contract—including flighttesting and qualifying new digital systems, as well as training flight crews and maintenance personnel. An upgraded “glass cockpit” will feature five main displays offering the pilot and co-pilot user-friendly and customizable engine, system, navigation and weather radar data. PHOTO: jim ANDERSON/BOEING 8 BEIO NG FRONTEIRS / SEPTEMBER 2013
Frontiers September 2013 Issue
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