All Safety News – Page 1275
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Shenyang deal extends Sino-links
Geoff Thomas BMW Rolls-Royce is to extend its Sino-links by signing a long-term deal with CATIC Supply and Shenyang Engine Manufacturing at Le Bourget today. The deal - to be signed by BMW Rolls-Royce's operations director Neil Ansell and a representative of CATIC - is believed to involve ...
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Airbus juggles final assembly sites for flexibility
Hamburg has been chosen for the final assembly of the 107-seat Airbus Industrie A318 - but some of its A319 production will move to Toulouse, it was announced at the show yesterday. Airbus chief executive Noel Forgeard says the decision to split the A319 final assembly offers production flexibility. ...
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Amsafe promotes airbags for safety
Steve Nichols If we can have airbags in cars, why can't we have them in aircraft? This should be the question on any passenger's lips as they step on board a flight. Statistics show that 77% of all aircraft crashes are survivable, but survivability is not enough. Should ...
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Multi warhead teamwork on display
Andy Douse Within the last six months, two international teams have been formed to create a new 'force' in warhead technology. They're called Team Lancer and Team Fuzing, and they're at Le Bourget to tell you more. Team Lancer provides multi-warhead solutions for the attack and defeat ...
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Corporate jet leads Airbus 30-year anniversary
Air show veterans will recall the launch of the Airbus Industrie A300 in 1969... then raise a glass to the astonishing organisation celebrating its 30th anniversary at Le Bourget. Airbus is here in style, with a pair of firsts - showing off the Airbus A319 Corporate Jetliner (A319CJ) ...
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Airlines rapped
Airlines could face legal action if they fail to change their scheduled flight contracts to make them fairer to passengers. The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has backed complaints made by the Air Transport Users' Council and published a list of 30 airline contract terms which it says ...
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Debut for 'flying phone exchange'
History was made at Le Bourget yesterday when the spectacular Halo-Proteus took to the skies in its international debut. This was the first time a stratospheric aircraft had flown at the Paris air show and the first time the aircraft has been seen outside its home base in Mojave, ...
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New orders give Sextant an optimistic outlook
Not only is Sextant Avionique on home territory at the Paris air show, it is also very bullish thanks to recently-confirmed orders for avionic and satcoms equipment. DaimlerChrysler Aviation has chosen a complete avionics package from Sextant for its A319 Corporate Jet fleet, including flight management systems (FMS), dual distance ...
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Attitude of airlines to pilot training 'worrying'
The world shortage of airline pilots has already led to a worrying reduction in recruitment standards, says Geoffrey White, PARC Aviation's general manager aviation consulting. "As specialists in the sector, PARC believes that this trend is unhealthy and that all the industry's major players should work together to ensure that ...
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Success in compact satcom system demonstration
Simultaneous telephone and fax messages from the cabin of a Challenger 604 business jet successfully demonstrated the Rockwell Collins Satellite Communications (SATCOM) 5000 Aero-I system. The system completed communication through Satellite Aircom's Inmarsat ground station in Aussaguel, France. The Collins single box SATCOM 5000 is a small, light satellite ...
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Ice cap study set to launch Living Planet space project
The most comprehensive earth observation programme every undertaken has been launched by the European Space Agency (ESA). The £400-million Living Planet research project embraces a series of space missions that will investigate the earth's environment by measuring physical, chemical and biological processes at work in the earth's atmosphere, oceans ...
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Updated Avro RJs close to definition
As the Paris show opens, British Aerospace Regional Aircraft is rapidly closing on definition of its updated Avro RJ family of 70-, 85- and 100-seat airliners. A roadshow has visited the company's 50 top suppliers, most of whom are already involved in existing RJ models, to brief them on the ...
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Boeing bullish about 717's market prospects
Boeing's newest aircraft, the Boeing 717 - dubbed the best solution for the growing 100-seat market by chairman and CEO Phil Condit - makes its European debut at Le Bourget. Boeing inherited the 717 as the MD 95 following the takeover of McDonnell Douglas. It is the direct successor to ...
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Honeywell avionics at heart of B717
Honeywell's Versatile Integrated Avionics (VIA 2000) system is the avionics architecture for the new Boeing 717 twin-jet being shown at Le Bourget this week. The VIA system that forms the basis of the 717's Advanced Flight Deck features six flat panel liquid crystal displays. Dual VIA computers integrate the following ...
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Will the crash damage russian fighter sales?
Yesterday's dramatic and highly public crash of a $34 million Sukhoi Su-30MK during its flying display once again saw two Russian pilots make a seemingly miraculous escape, but their country's aerospace industry may not be so lucky. The question on everyone's mind today - having established the pilots are unharmed ...
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Le Bourget goes for biggest and best title
An enlarged static area, a sixth exhibition hall and new-look chalets are just some of the elements which make the 43rd Paris air show the biggest, and - the organisers hope - the best air show ever. With more than 1,760 exhibitors registered by mid-May, organiser SIAE had to ...
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Consolidation in Europe 'not protectionism': Bechat
The USA should not interpret recent efforts to consolidate the French and European aerospace industries as protectionism, Jean-Paul Bechat, chairman of the French Aerospace Industries Association (GIFAS) said yesterday. "Our message to our American partners is that we are fully ready to have continuing transatlantic links and cooperation but they ...
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Technology promises breakthrough in air traffic monitoring
Air traffic control could soon be moving from the ground to the air if trials of an Automatic Dependent Surveillance -Broadcast (ADS-B) solution on display at UPS Aviation Technologies' stand (Hall 3/A8) go well. ADS-B is just one new technology on the road to true "free flight". It allows pilots ...
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ATN team aims for Paris flight demonstrations
A team including Aerospatiale, Thomson-CSF, Eurocontrol, the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) and Sofreavia hopes to conduct flight demonstrations using the aeronautical telecommunication network (ATN) at this month's Paris air show. The ATN is being designed to integrate existing aeronautical networks in a seamless and interoperable internet, providing a ...
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JAL set for video on demand
Emma Kelly/LONDON Sextant In-Flight Systems aims to have audio- and video-on-demand (A/VOD) equipment in revenue service with Japan Airlines (JAL) next month. JAL is equipping seven Boeing 747-400s with Sextant's mSeries interactive in-flight entertainment (IFE) system. The mSeries, previously called the Multi-media Digital Distribution System, was installed on the ...