All Systems & Interiors news – Page 815
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HUDs for hubs
Tony Booth/Basle Switzerland's Crossair has completed the installation of head-up displays (HUDs) in its Saab 2000s, thus providing the schedule reliability required for its EuroCross strategy to turn Basle Airport into a major European regional hub. With careful arrival and departure co-ordination, Crossair now guarantees more than 500 ...
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A common cause
Arianespace's chairman says that the company must forge partnerships to maintain its market share Tim Furniss/PARIS Arianespace of France and Antrix, the commercial wing of India's Department of Space, signed an agreement on 11 June to pursue a plan to market jointly the Indian Space Research Organisation's Polar ...
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American Eagle confirms ERJ-135
Guy Norris/FORT WORTH American Eagle has selected the Embraer ERJ-135 to meet its requirement for up to 150 of the 37-seat regional jets. The carrier expects formally to announce the deal by early September - probably in time for the Farnborough air show. The decision will be a major, but ...
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Growth Super Puma will challenge S-92
Eurocopter has launched a growth version of its Super Puma transport helicopter, the MkIII, that will bring it closer to matching the new Sikorsky S-92 in the offshore exploration market. The new variant will be ready for European Joint Aviation Authorities certification and delivery at the end of 2001. While ...
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ESA to develop small satellite launcher
Ministers from the European Space Agency member states have agreed to develop a new small commercial satellite launcher called the Vega. The booster will include the Italian/French-built Ariane 5 solid rocket booster, two Fiat Avio motors and a liquid propellant upper stage. The launcher is aimed at placing payloads ...
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Do-it-yourself weighing machine approvedTEXT: Ian Sheppard/LondonBritish Aerospace Regional Aircraft has dispatched the first raw material
A weighing device that uses aircraft landing gear struts as scales has won US Federal Aviation Administration approval. The weight and balance system (WBS) is made by Dallas, Texas-based Trinity Airweighs. It can measure the weight and centre of gravity (CG) of an aircraft without the need for traditional ...
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Russia pleads poverty to delay de-orbiting the Mir space station
Russia is continuing to play a cat-and-mouse game with NASA over the International Space Station (ISS) and national Mir space station programmes. Being pressed by NASA to de-orbit the Mir as soon as possible to pave the way for the ISS, Russia is claiming that lack of funds will ...
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FAA approves TLS
The Transponder Landing System (TLS) developed by Advanced Navigation & Positioning of Hood River, Oregon, has been certificated by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The TLSallows Category 1 localiser and glidepath signals to be transmitted from an airfield base station to aircraft equipped for instrument landing system use, without the ...
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Luscombe Spartan
Luscombe Aircraft's four-seat Spartan 185 is scheduled to make its first flight on 19 June at Altus, Oklahoma. The aircraft was originally built between 1935 and 1966 under the title Luscombe 11A, and about 3,000 are still in operation. To date, about $4 million has been invested in retooling for ...
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Hunting sells cargo airline to complete aviation disposals
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The UK's Hunting group has completed the last major piece in the year-long dismantling of its loss-making aviation division, with the sale of the Hunting Cargo Airlines business. It has gone to Belgian shipping group CMB, which bid jointly with South African freight carrier Safair. The ...
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Europeans forge ahead with EGNOS, despite AEA fears
Julian Moxon/PARIS Europe is pressing ahead with the introduction of a high fidelity complement to the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) despite repeated accusations from the Association of European Airlines (AEA)that it "-fails to provide any operational benefits for users". Final negotiations are now under way with the ...
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Asian crisis will cost 150 orders in next five years, says Boeing
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON The still unfolding economic crisis in Asia has had a big impact on Boeing's latest long-term aircraft forecasts, with predictions that the regional downturn will cost 150 aircraft orders over the next five years. Prospects for the launch of a high-capacity aircraft above the 747-400 have ...
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CAG secures its first order for Y-12 Twin Panda
Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing will deliver its first Y-12(IV) Twin Panda turboprop airframe to the Canadian Aerospace Group (CAG) in August for final completion and supplementary type certification, before delivery to a US customer in March 1999. CAG says it has secured the first order for two Y-12s from an ...
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Growing DeCrane buys up specialist Avtech
Fast-growing US aerospace group DeCrane Aircraft is continuing on the acquisition trail with a deal to buy Avtech, a Seattle-based electronic systems specialist, for $83 million. Chairman Jack DeCrane says the purchase should take the group's sales above $200 million next year. Avtech supplies a range of communication, power and ...
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Engine pooling concept targets airline costs
Guy Norris/SAN DIEGO Shannon Engine Support (SES), an Irish-based company specialising in supporting the CFM International CFM56-3, is promoting a concept in which airlines will club together to create a pool of spare engines. The initiative has been prompted by estimates that the industry will have to spend $30 ...
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Sextant/Dassault agree new venture
Julian Moxon/PARIS Sextant Avionique and Dassault Electronique have agreed details of their new joint venture, which will operate under the name CNS Avionics within a French GIE structure similar to the consortium arrangement used for Airbus Industrie. The two companies will continue to market their own avionics lines, ...
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Controlling interest
Privatising the UK's ATC service is part of a world wide move to put control of the airways on a commercial footing Having swung between ambiguity and hostility over possible privatisation of the UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS) while in opposition, the UK's Labour Government caught everybody flatfooted ...
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On the horizon
The Inmarsat Council has approved steps to establish interim funding to allow for the start of the Horizons project in advance of Inmarsat's transition into a private company. Horizons will involve a constellation of four geostationary-orbiting satellites to offer broadband, high speed, mobile multimedia services. Source: Flight International
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IATA seals Afghanistan deals
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The Afghanistan Government and national carrier Ariana Afghan Airlines have concluded a series of wide ranging agreements with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to overhaul local air traffic communications as well as to improve aircraft and airport safety. Under an $8 million deal concluded with ...
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Cimber picks ATR 72s in fight to win Danish rail travellers
Julian Moxon/SONDERBORG Danish regional airline Cimber Air is to expand its fleet with the purchase of ATR 72s and, eventually, regional jets. The plan follows the airline's sale of a 26% stake to SAS. The carrier has been linked with SAS since October 1995, operating feeder services into ...