All Safety News – Page 1315
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Continental can weather downturn
Continental Airlines chairman Gordon Bethune says his company has the cash and the strategy to weather labour disputes, low-fare competition and the inevitable industry downturn. Bethune is sanguine about Continental's revival, which has seen the company rise from a $200 million shortfall to nearly $500 million in profit in ...
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UK wire specialist shortlisted for export award
The UK Department of Trade and Industry has made Spectrum Technologies' 10th birthday a very happy one, after shortlisting the company for a DTI export award for small businesses. The company (Hall 3, A3) supplies ultraviolet (UV) laser wire marking and processing systems which are used in the production ...
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Marconi antennas selected
Canadian Marconi has secured two new contracts for Satcom antennas. Its CMA-2102 High Gain antenna has been selected by Continental Airlines for its new Boeing 777 and 767-400 aircraft and by Gulf Air for its Airbus A330-200 fleet. The antennae will provide onboard telephone, data and fax services via ...
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The finishing touches courtesy of Expo Flora
Alex Gallemore At every airshow worldwide you can count on Expo Flora to be there to add the green fingered finish to the stands. As the trade halls at Farnborough were being constructed, the Expo Flora team were hard at work preparing the plants and arrangements to complement ...
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BA order boosts IAE to record heights
As announced at the show yesterday, International Aero Engines (IAE) president and chief executive officer Barry Eccleston is headed for a new career with Fairchild Aerospace. He leaves the engine company on an undisputed high note. Firm and option business won during the last eight months totals $5.7 billion - ...
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Both winners in Hawk-McLaren showdown run
As demonstrated by Flight Daily News's specially re-created picture, there was no clear answer to the age-old question - which is the faster? - when yesterday's flying display was opened by a joint dash up Farnborough's main display runway by a British Aerospace Hawk 200 and McLaren's unique MP4-98 two-seater ...
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Video flight data recorder under development
If a picture paints a thousand words, why don't flight data recorders (FDRs) include video? If DM Aerospace (Hall 3/B1) has its way, they will. The company announced today that it is developing the world's first Aircraft Data Recorder, incorporating the FDR, the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and an ...
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Windshear detector feeds pilots vital data
Since 1964, windshear has been recognised as a contributing factor in more than 25 air accidents. Holding the basic patent for windshear detection since 1977, Safe Flight's latest wind shear warning (WSW) systems now fly in hundreds of aircraft worldwide. The company, in Hall 1, Stand D35, is ...
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Smiths puts 'head down' displays in Eurofighter
Eurofighter will be equipped with the latest hi-tech multifunctional "head-down" display from Smiths Industries. The company has been contracted by British Aerospace to supply the display for the Eurofighter EF2000, three in each single cockpit and six in the twin seats variants. Using the latest active matrix liquid ...
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Swissair SR111 flight recorder found
The investigation into Swissair flight SR111 which crashed on 2 September has taken a major step forward following the recovery of the flight data recorder (FDR). Swissair in Zurich says the FDR was recovered yesterday evening. As the search for the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) continues, the Swiss flag ...
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Airlines assured in the year 2000
Tony Stevenson Airbus Industrie and Boeing aircraft will not be at risk to the "millennium bug" as the clock strikes midnight at the end of 1999. Both major manufacturers have given pledges that aircraft systems will be "millennium compliant." Boeing's Walt Gillette, leader of engineering and product ...
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Patriot meets FAA demands
Mark Hannant Following the US Federal Aviation Authority's ruling increasing the number of parameters to be monitored by digital flight data recorders (DFDRs), Patriot Sensors and Control has announced the immediate availability and compliance of its MP Series of position transducers for use in DFDRs. The new FAA ...
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Safety shortcomings 'cause for concern'
Steve Nichols The three words on avionics suppliers' lips at Farnborough this year are "safety, safety and safety". As Guy Norris reports in this week's Flight International, the US Federal Aviation Administration expects "a serious accident every few weeks by 2015" unless major changes are made in the ...
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Firefighters ready for any emergency
Alex Gallemore It's all hands on deck for the 50 members of the aviation fire crew at this year's airshow. Since October last year fire teams and event organisers have been arranging extra firefighting equipment and crews to be on stand-by for Farnborough '98. Aviation firemen have ...
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Controllers' strike hits pilots
Pilots operating domestic flights in Papua New Guinea (PNG) were left to make air traffic decisions for themselves for an hour as the country's air traffic controllers went on strike. Director-general Miria Ume of PNG's civil aviation department, says from Port Moresby that domestic flights were given no instructions ...
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Airborne transmissions easy prey for hackers
Steve Nichols Visitors looking at the latest ACARS systems, for transmitting digital data from aircraft to ground, should beware. A High Wycombe-based company claims it has software which can hack the transmissions for just £24.99 ($40). The SkySpy software, which is being offered by ...
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SBAC launches information service for smaller companies
Mark Hannant Globalisation in the aerospace industries may be making times tougher for small and medium sized businesses trying to compete with the might of the industry giants. A helping hand can make the difference between success and failure. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the UK are ...
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Ground control error led to SOHO hiccup
Tim Furniss The mysterious loss of contact with the European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) last June was caused by mistakes by ground controllers, ESA reported yesterday. The highly successful SOHO had been providing excellent data about the sun for over two years from its ...
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Bombardier sets stiff pace with new products
That Bombardier should be at Farnborough with several new products should come as little surprise: for nearly half of the 12 years since it entered the aerospace business, it has delivered a new product to market each year. "We believe we have made pioneering efforts in this business which ...
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Hong Kong tackles long haul rostering
The Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department (CAD) is planning pioneering new rules on maximum permissible flight hours and minimum stand down periods, which will require Cathay Pacific Airways to overhaul crew rostering for long haul flights. Cathay has until 30 November to submit its response to the CAD 371 ...