All Safety News – Page 701
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Spin threatens to obscure long road to introducing sustainable alternatives to kerosene
higher frontier aimee Turner london The competition to be the first to market with sustainable alternative fuels is in full motion, but sometimes...
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Singapore 2008: Lufthansa Systems offers flight-planning fuel savings
A new flight-planning module promising fuel savings of up to 2% was launched by Lufthansa...
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Fuel feed interruption still in the frame for BA 777 accident, says AAIB
AAIB bulletin on causes of BA accident cites partial interruption of supply as potential cause of power loss on approach
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EasyJet encourages next-generation open-rotor engine technology
EasyJet wants powerplant manufacturers to pursue open-rotor architecture as the prime engine technology for next-generation narrowbody airliners as it offers...
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Qantas 747 electrical failure 'less serious' than first thought
Australian investigators say the in-flight loss of electrical power on board a Qantas Boeing 747-400 last month was not as serious as first indications suggested. During...
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Low-cost carriers step up French invasion
Low-cost carriers step up French invasion EasyJet's decision to open...
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Australia seeks to tackle growing pilot shortage
Australian airlines, flying training organisations, universities, industry groups and the government have established the Future Pilot Task Force in an attempt...
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Virgin biofuel demonstration to use first generation feedstock: Boeing
Virgin Atlantic looks set to use a first-generation feedstock to evaluate biofuel alternatives for air transport, something which the UK airline had widely...
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Singapore 2008: MHI close to giving go-ahead for MRJ
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is likely to go ahead with the development of an indigenous regional jet after...
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Singapore 2008: Pratt & Whitney pushes GP7000 as alternative A350 XWB engine
Engine Alliance partner Pratt...
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Singapore 2008: Boeing bullish on biofuels ahead of Virgin demo flight
Boeing believes that biofuel blends will eventually be cheaper for airlines to use than conventional kerosene if the price of a barrel of crude oil remains...
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BA 777 accident report
The AAIB report refers to studies of the fuel flow system "taking account of the environ-mental and aerodynamic effects". This is understood to refer to...
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Airbus claims first with A340 electric brake test
Airbus says the successful trial in February of an electrically activated braking system (EABS) on its A340-600 development...