Airplane Information Management System

Last updated March 10, 2025

The Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) is the "brains"^{[ clarification needed ]} of Boeing 777 aircraft. It uses four ARINC 629 buses to transfer information. There are 2 cabinets on each plane (left and right).^[1]^[2]^[3]

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.^[4]^[5] The Airplane Information Management System software would become arguably the best-known of any Ada project, civilian or military.^[6] Some 550 developers at Honeywell worked on the flight system.^[5]

Functions

Primary Functions

Cockpit displays system^[7]
Flight management system
Thrust management system (Autothrottle)
Aircraft condition monitoring system
Data communication management (Datalink)
Flight deck communication
Central maintenance system
Flight data acquisition system

Other Functions

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

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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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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[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.

[rehmer-4] 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-b777-5] 1 2 "Boeing Flies on 99% Ada". Ada Information Clearinghouse. Archived from the original on November 5, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.

[queue-6] 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 .

[7] Airplane Information Management System (AIMS) | Honeywell Aerospace

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