Engineering:Airplane Information Management System

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The Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) is the integrated avionics system of Boeing 777 aircraft, produced by Honeywell Aerospace. [1][2][3][4]

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. 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.[5][6] The Airplane Information Management System software would become arguably the best-known of any Ada project, civilian or military.[7] Some 550 developers at Honeywell worked on the flight system.[6]

The original system, AIMS-1, was first introduced with the introduction of the Boeing 777 in 1995. An updated version, AIMS-2, was introduced in 2003[7].

System

Primary Functions

  • Cockpit Displays (primary flight display, multifunction display, EICAS)[4]
  • Flight management system
  • Thrust management system (Autothrottle)
  • Aircraft condition monitoring system
  • In-flight datalink (ACARS/CPDLC)
  • Flight deck communication
  • Central maintenance system
  • Flight data acquisition system

Other Functions

Back-End

  • Four ARINC 629 buses for information transfer
  • Two primary avionics cabinets, located under the cockpit in the avionics bay

See also

References

  1. ↑ "777 Family: Flight Deck and Airplane Systems". Boeing. http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/777family/background/back6.page. Retrieved 2013-10-05. 
  2. ↑ Witwer, Bob (April 1996). "System Integration of the 777 Airplane Information Management System". Honeywell. Archived from the original on 2013-10-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20131007004801/https://www.stevens.edu/sse/sites/default/files/777%20Systems%20Integration.pdf. Retrieved 2013-10-05. 
  3. ↑ Morgan, Michael J. (2001). "The Avionics Handbook: Boeing B-777". Honeywell. http://www.davi.ws/avionics/TheAvionicsHandbook_Cap_29.pdf. Retrieved 2013-10-05. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) | Honeywell Aerospace
  5. ↑ Rehmer, Karl (2009). "The HADS Team". in Stellman, Andrew; Greene, Jennifer. Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly. pp. 299–312. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Boeing Flies on 99% Ada". Ada Information Clearinghouse. Archived from the original on November 5, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151105021316/http://archive.adaic.com/projects/atwork/boeing.html. Retrieved October 24, 2015. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Wolfe, Alexander (October 2004). "There's Still Some Life Left in Ada". ACM Queue 2 (7): pp. 28–31. doi:10.1145/1035594.1035608. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1035608. 



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