Airplane Information Management System

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

Flight Data Recorder System^{[citation needed]}
Aircraft Conditioning Monitoring System^{[citation needed]}

Back-End

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

References

↑ "777 Family: Flight Deck and Airplane Systems". Boeing. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
↑ Witwer, Bob (April 1996). "System Integration of the 777 Airplane Information Management System" (PDF). Honeywell. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-07. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
↑ Morgan, Michael J. (2001). "The Avionics Handbook: Boeing B-777" (PDF). Honeywell. Retrieved 2013-10-05.
1 2 Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) | Honeywell Aerospace
↑ Rehmer, Karl (2009). "The HADS Team". In Stellman, Andrew; Greene, Jennifer (eds.). Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly. pp. 299–312.
1 2 "Boeing Flies on 99% Ada". Ada Information Clearinghouse. Archived from the original on November 5, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
1 2 Wolfe, Alexander (October 2004). "There's Still Some Life Left in Ada". ACM Queue. Vol. 2, no. 7. pp. 28–31. doi:10.1145/1035594.1035608.

External links

Boeing 777 Airplane Information Management System

[1] "777 Family: Flight Deck and Airplane Systems". Boeing. Retrieved 2013-10-05.

[2] Witwer, Bob (April 1996). "System Integration of the 777 Airplane Information Management System" (PDF). Honeywell. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-07. Retrieved 2013-10-05.

[3] Morgan, Michael J. (2001). "The Avionics Handbook: Boeing B-777" (PDF). Honeywell. Retrieved 2013-10-05.

[:0-4] 1 2 Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) | Honeywell Aerospace

[rehmer-5] Rehmer, Karl (2009). "The HADS Team". In Stellman, Andrew; Greene, Jennifer (eds.). Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly. pp. 299–312.

[ic-b777-6] 1 2 "Boeing Flies on 99% Ada". Ada Information Clearinghouse. Archived from the original on November 5, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.

[queue-7] 1 2 Wolfe, Alexander (October 2004). "There's Still Some Life Left in Ada". ACM Queue. Vol. 2, no. 7. pp. 28–31. doi:10.1145/1035594.1035608.

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