RF Technology Helps Connect Avionics Systems

Avionics systems provide electronic guidance, navigation, and communications through harsh and hostile environments for a wide range of airframes. Operating environments present elevated levels of shock and vibration; vacuum-like conditions of high altitudes; corrosive effects of hydraulic fluids, fuels, and other chemicals; and the effects of wide temperature ranges. Avionics systems must handle such challenging environments even as they are being designed with greater functionality into smaller payload spaces.