The Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) is the "brains" of
Boeing 777
The Boeing 777, commonly referred to as the Triple Seven, is an American long-range wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The 777 is the world's largest twinjet and the most-built wide-body airliner. ...
aircraft. It uses four
ARINC 629 buses to transfer information. There are 2 cabinets on each plane (left and right).
History
The
Intel 80x86 processor was the first to be used for the system, in conjunction with a compiler and runtime system for the
Ada programming language
Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, inspired by Pascal and other languages. It has built-in language support for '' design by contract'' (DbC), extremely strong typing, expli ...
.
Beginning in 1988 and continuing for a number of years,
Honeywell Air Transport Systems worked together with consultants from
DDC-I in collaboration to retarget and optimize the DDC-I Ada compiler to the
AMD 29050 architecture for use in full scale development.
The Airplane Information Management System software would become arguably the best-known of any Ada project, civilian or military.
Some 550 developers at Honeywell worked on the flight system.
Functions
Primary Functions
* Cockpit displays system
Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) , Honeywell Aerospace
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* Flight management system
* Thrust management system (Autothrottle)
* Aircraft condition monitoring system
* Data communication
Data communication, including data transmission and data reception, is the transfer of data, transmitted and received over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel. Examples of such channels are copper wires, optic ...
management (Datalink)
* Flight deck communication
* Central maintenance system
* Flight data acquisition system
Other Functions
* Flight Data Recorder
A flight recorder is an electronic recording device placed in an aircraft for the purpose of facilitating the investigation of aviation accidents and incidents. The device may often be referred to colloquially as a "black box", an outdated nam ...
System
* Aircraft Conditioning Monitoring System
See also
* Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA)
* Cockpit display system
References
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External links
Boeing 777 Airplane Information Management System
Avionics