All Systems & Interiors news – Page 792
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Loran-C reprieved as USA sets timetable for move to sole GPS
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC It will take at least 10 years for the USA to complete its transition from ground-based navigation aids to the satellite-based global positioning system (GPS) for "sole means" navigation, according to US aviation officials. Meanwhile, Loran-C, which is operated by the US Coast Guard for en ...
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Bombardier adds more names to Continental as launch nears
Bombardier has named further risk-sharing partners for its Continental business jet programme. Launch of the "super mid-size" Continental is expected by the time of the Paris air show. France's Intertechnique will provide the fuel system, and ECE - a Group Intertechnique company - will supply the electrical system. AlliedSignal ...
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Trimble terminates GA avionics production
Trimble is planning to halt general aviation avionics production by May, following the rumoured collapse of a deal to sell its product line. The sale by Trimble of subsidiary Terra, set up four years ago to handle the Terra avionics product line, is also expected to fall through. Sunnyvale, ...
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A340 reduced stability flight tests set to cut A3XX weight
Julian Moxon/PARIS Airbus Industrie is about to begin flight testing a specially equipped A340 to show that the new A3XX can fly with less static and dynamic stability than its current fly-by-wire aircraft. Engineering and product vice-president Robert Lafontan says the consortium is also considering a fly-by-wire flight ...
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Boeing bids for more modification work
Boeing is seeking to take a larger share of the market for modification of its airliners. It is forming a business unit to provide conversion, upgrade and engineering services to airlines and maintenance centres. The new Boeing Airplane Services unit is built around the company's Wichita, Kansas-based 747 passenger-to-freighter conversion ...
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UPS contract leads Thomson to Windows NT
Thomson Training &Simulation (TTS) has launched a Windows NT-based full flight simulator with an order from United Parcel Service. TTS says the simulator, for the Airbus A300-600R, will be the world's first to feature a PC-based real-time computing architecture using the Windows NT operating system. Presently, the company uses ...
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Sibir bounces back with turnover up 10%
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Former Aeroflot carrier Sibir is showing signs of rebounding from the Russian economic collapse, with traffic and financial figures showing improvement during 1998. The Novosibirsk-based airline carried 620,000 passengers last year, up 3% on 1997, while cargo volumes were up by 5%, to 5,800t. Sibir's success is all ...
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Airbus counts cost of short-haul price war with Boeing
Chris Jasper/LONDON Airbus Industrie has made provisions for losses totalling £400 million ($650 million) as a result of the mid-90s price war with Boeing over shorthaul airliner sales, the European manufacturer has revealed. Around £200 million of the charge was absorbed last year, resulting in a loss to the ...
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US carriers optimistic as market shows recovery
ChrisJasper/LONDON The USA's major carriers are suddenly more bullish about their financial prospects for the rest of the year following a modest improvement in overall market conditions and better than expected performance in the first quarter. Most of the country's big airlines expressed serious concerns about their likely fortunes ...
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Safety boards act on cockpit recorder safety
Canadian and US safety boards are recommending changes to cockpit voice and flight data recorders (CVRs and FDRs) to prevent power interruptions which have complicated recent accident investigations. Canadian investigators say their efforts to determine the cause of last September's Swissair Boeing MD-11 crash have been compromised by missing ...
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Airlines move to fill Channel Islands vacuum
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS Aurigny Air Services and VLM are looking to capitalise on KLMuk's decision to reduce its Channel Islands operations, with new routes to the UK mainland and Continental Europe. Channel Islands-based Aurigny has applied to replace KLM uk on services between Guernsey and London Stansted from April. Jersey ...
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Lufthansa plans capacity rise despite decline in yields
Andrew Doyle/BERLIN Chris Jasper/LONDON Lufthansa is planning to buck the European trend and increase capacity by 13% with the introduction of its summer schedules, despite sharing industry concerns over declining yields. Other European - and US - majors have been saddled with excess capacity over the past 12 months ...
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Airbus seeks exit rule changes
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH David Learmount/LONDON Airbus Industrie is trying to persuade European and US regulatory authorities to modify certification rules to allow it to build the A340-600 with the same number of emergency exits as the smaller -300, despite the fact that the new variant seats nearly 100 more passengers. To ...
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Rockwell focuses on enhanced weather AWAREness for pilots
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES An enhanced weather briefing and reporting tool for general aviation (GA) pilots is to be demonstrated to US flight schools and fixed base operators in California, Iowa and Maryland. The Advanced Weather and Reporting Enhancements (AWARE) tool is being developed by the Rockwell Science Centre, Rockwell ...
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German firm begins A320 shuttle service
Car manufacturer DaimlerChrysler has begun operating an Airbus A320 corporate shuttle between its headquarters cities of Stuttgart, Germany, and Detroit, Michigan. Operated by DaimlerChrysler Pentastar Aviation, the A320 is flying four scheduled round trips a week between Stuttgart International and Oakland County International airports. The aircraft, dubbed the Transatlantic ...
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Escape route
Reducing the number of cabin exits to accelerate emergency passenger evacuation sounds like a contradiction in terms. That is, however, what Airbus Industrie is arguing as it tries to persuade European and US regulators to change the certification rules which affect the exit layout for its stretched A340, the -600 ...
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C-295 avionics
CASA has selected Sextant Avionique's Topdeck avionics for its new C-295 light tactical transport aircraft. Topdeck consists of four liquid crystal displays and control units, an integrated standby instrument, flight management system module, two multifunction control and display units and two attitude and heading reference systems. The new avionics suite ...
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Peruvian domestic carrier reaches into Chilean market
Peruvian domestic carrier Aero Continente is investing $10 million in setting up an airline in Chile. The company will take a 49% stake in the airline - the maximum permitted under Chilean law. The remaining stake will be held by a group of Chilean investors led by airline pilot ...
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IATA outlines Y2K plans
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE David Learmount/LONDON Fear of year 2000 (Y2K) "bugs" in air traffic services (ATS) computers is almost certain to cause flight delays and cancellations to varying degrees, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has calculated. Plans revealed for Asia-Pacific assume the need to reduce the capacity of ...