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Attendant Devices
March 14, 2015  | Written by Howard Slutsken
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This article originally appeared in The Technology Issue of APEX Experience. It looks like Star Trek got it right, again. Long before we had tablet computers, the crew of the Enterprise “D” could be seen running to Captain Picard with devices that looked suspiciously like an iPad or Galaxy Tab. The captain would examine the starship’s latest status report, […]

In Conversation: APEX Middle East with Marwan Rahbani
March 13, 2015  | Written by APEX Staff
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Marwan Rahbani President/CEO Rahbani Productions Marwan studied music composition under the tutelage of Master Hagob Arslanian. After learning the aesthetics of dramatic arts with the late Andre Gedeon, Marwan moved to Paris and Los Angeles to complete a course in film direction. He soon immersed himself in theater direction, working with the late legend Assi Rahbani in several musical […]

Ahead by a Century
March 12, 2015  | Written by Katie Sehl
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This article originally appeared in The Technology Issue of APEX Experience. In a small, ordinary boardroom at Honeywell Flight Test Operations in Phoenix, Arizona, Jim Fusaro, the company’s vice-president of marketing and product management for mechanical sub systems, poses a rhetorical challenge: “Can you name how many companies have been in business for more than 100 years?” The answer? […]

In Profile: Jay Heinrichs
 | Written by APEX Staff
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Jay Heinrichs Editorial Director, Southwest: The Magazine Pace Communications Heinrichs is the founding editor of US Airways’ Attaché, deputy editor of Outside Magazine, vice-president of content atSiteShell, editorial director at Rodale. In addition to his editorial work, he is also the author of the bestselling book Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer […]

Project LUV Seat
 | Written by Marri Lynn Knadle
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Southwest Airlines recently overhauled the interiors of its 737-700 craft and part of its 737-300 fleet. They chose eco-friendly materials for the redesign, simultaneously reducing aircraft weight by over 600 pounds, which translates into fuel efficiency and a greener flight. Southwest also looked at what they could do with the considerable leftovers: the used leather […]

Flights of the Engineers
 | Written by Katie Sehl
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Airplanes are taking off and landing at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport at regular intervals, but Honeywell Flight Test Operations staff at the runway-adjacent site, are unphased by them. When talking to each other, the team makes obligatory pauses to account for the roar of a jet engine taking off, and then resumes conversation. Take-offs and […]