| Marshall Business Aviation Centre. | | | | world. |
| Marshall Aerospace have just redisignated the airport | | | | Next generation systems will allow customers to |
| at Cambridge the Marshall Airport Cambridge, set up a | | | | integrate a wide variety of digital media into cabin |
| new Business Aviation Centre, offering business | | | | entertainment systems that include digital, high-definition |
| aviation and corporate aircraft maintenance to London | | | | monitors. Control of that media, as well as all other |
| and the East of England. This is an addition to their | | | | cabin functions, will be possible through |
| traditional business of aircraft modification and | | | | software-programmable touch-screen seat and |
| maintenance across the range from large military | | | | remote controls. In other words, an owner will be able |
| aircraft to Cessna Citations. | | | | to sit in his or her seat-or walk around with a wireless |
| Executive jet electronics and datainthesky. | | | | remote control-and select media sources for the |
| Today's "state of the art" in executive jet data | | | | cabin's monitors, speakers and headset sound |
| systems equals hardware and features that aren't too | | | | systems, while also adjusting the cabin's lighting, |
| much more advanced than what's already available on | | | | temperature, and window shade positions. |
| the ground. Bigger classes of business jets, such as | | | | And because the newest CMS/IFE systems |
| Boeing Business Jets and Airbus ACJs, have always | | | | incorporate connections and docking stations for a |
| had better in-flight system options because they have | | | | variety of portable devices, those media sources could |
| more space, can take on more weight and generally | | | | include CDs, standard and Blu-Ray DVDs,iPods, MP3 |
| require larger budgets to complete. | | | | players, Playstations, selections from an on-board |
| For example, real-time television and high-speed | | | | media library, views from forward-mounted cameras, |
| Internet access have been available in very large jets | | | | 3-D, GPS-based moving-map displays, and real-time |
| VLJs for several years. High-speed internet access is | | | | news and sports text updates. |
| only now arriving in smaller business aircraft, and the | | | | Satellite technology. |
| technology for real-time TV is still a little way off. But | | | | But what about connecting to the world outside the |
| those highly capable systems for large private jets | | | | aircraft? Currently, satellite phone technology offers |
| aren't cheap. A top-end cabin management and | | | | voice and text data transfer (hence the ability to get |
| entertainment system for a BBJ or ACJ can run | | | | text scrolls of CNN and sports updates in flight). But |
| between $1 and $2 million. | | | | internet access is coming. A satellite based system |
| The good news is, the latest in-flight systems are | | | | (using the INMAR SAT network) called Swift |
| beginning to catch up with home entertainment | | | | Broadband has now given jet customers in most |
| technology-in all sizes of private jets. The two biggest | | | | mid-sized and larger jets the first access to global |
| changes, are the advent of digital, high-definition, | | | | high-speed internet. Other high-speed internet options |
| home-theatre-type technology for in-flight | | | | for aircraft owners operating within the US are |
| entertainment systems, and connectivity, both within | | | | ground-based systems created by Aircell. |
| the cabin and between the cabin and the outside | | | | |