All Systems & Interiors news – Page 91
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INTERIORS: SIA goes ultra-long-haul with Panasonic IFEC
Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Panasonic Avionics have extended their agreement to include custom-tailored in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) solutions across the airline’s entire Boeing 787-10 and Airbus A350-900 ultra-long-range fleets.
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INTERIORS: PAVES passenger service systems gets OK for A330
Rockwell Collins’ PAVES Passenger Service System (PSS) has just earned its EASA ticket for the Airbus A330, the company revealed at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg. Collins teamed with Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance to design, install and achieve the supplemental type certificate as part of a ...
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INTERIORS: Aeropace 'needs IP collaboration'
Aerospace companies are “almost sociopaths” when it comes to guarding their intellectual property (IP), a factor which is standing in the way of achieving the level of true collaboration needed among stakeholders, delegates attending the Passenger Experience Conference at the Airline Interiors Expo in Hamburg were told.
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INTERIORS: Emergency lighting will GuideU out
Emergency floor path lighting is an essential safety feature on aircraft but is rarely attractive. To tackle this, engineers at Lufthansa Technik have come up with a new variant that is only visible when needed.
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INTERIORS: Electronic window dimming is 'key to cool'
A combination of electronically dimmable window and IFE technologies is being touted as a new way to enhance the revenue-generating value of window seats – by integrating a window with a transparent video display with an interactive moving map.
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INTERIORS: Why nine is the magic number on the 787
Is the Boeing 787 at a nine-abreast configuration too narrow for comfort? It depends who you believe. Airbus makes great play of the fact its nine-abreast A350 economy cabin is 12cm wider than the Dreamliner equivalent, allowing Toulouse to offer its standard 18in seat as opposed to Boeing’s 17in version.
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INTERIORS: Hamburg's crucible of technology development
Testing innovative technologies in a cabin environment has just become much easier – so long as you’re looking to work on Airbus products. Hamburg’s newly opened Zal centre of applied aeronautical research has built a cabin and cargo test rig that adapts to any in service commercial aircraft from any ...
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Embraer starts E190-E2 engines on wing
Embraer has started engines for the first time on the wing of an E190-E2.
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INTERIORS: Boeing LIFTs 737 seating options
Boeing is to unveil its latest economy class seat for its top-selling narrowbody at the Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) which opens tomorrow in Hamburg – which it developed with the product’s inventors after meeting them when they unveiled a prototype at last year's show.
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INTERIORS: How premium economy fits on London-New York
This article is based on a report prepared by Flightglobal's aircraft interiors specialist James Mellon, using data from Innovata and Fleets Analyzer. Download the data insight report here
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INTERIORS: The logic behind Airbus's launch of its Airspace cabin brand
In the war of the widebodies, Airbus – like Boeing – believes that the passenger experience inside the cabin is just as important as the economics the airliner delivers to the operator. In recent years, Toulouse’s marketing to its airline customers has increasingly put the emphasis on its customers’ customers, ...
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Lufthansa to shrink first-class capacity with A350
Lufthansa's planned introduction of the Airbus A350 from January 2017 will further reduce the airline's first-class capacity while the number of economy seats will rise.
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NewsBoeing, FAA warn 787 pilots of bad airspeed data
Boeing 787 pilots are being warned not to make sudden control inputs in response to a “sudden, unrealistic” drop in airspeed shown on cockpit displays.
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NewsLockheed venture lifts off with LOI for 12 hybrid airships
Lockheed Martin has bested its British rival, the Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10, by signing a launch customer for its LMH-1 airship: Straightline Aviation (SLA).
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ANALYSIS: How premium economy continues to add value
The continued rise of premium economy among airlines was further underscored late last year when American Airlines detailed plans making it the first US carrier to introduce a formal offering in the sector on long-haul services.
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ANALYSIS: Finmeccanica's long road to renaissance
As Mauro Moretti puts it, 2015 marked “the end of an era” at Finmeccanica, and so a new age begins, appropriately, with a new identity. The fact Italy’s resurgent national aerospace champion will adopt the name of one of the country's greatest sons – no less than Leonardo, as in ...
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PICTURES: Ryukyu Air unveils Q400 combi configuration
Japanese carrier Ryukyu Air Commuter has unveiled the configuration for its Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 cargo-combi variant.
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FIDAE: Boeing stresses market penetration at Chile show
Boeing is marking its 100th birthday at FIDAE with a chalet resembling the red barn that Bill Boeing used as his original workshop. But the world’s biggest aircraft manufacturer is also stressing the strength of its market presence in Latin America, from airliners to military aircraft, and from research facilities ...
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PICTURES: Airbus offers glimpse of new cabin for A330neo
Airbus has promised clearer legroom, bigger overhead storage bins and onboard wireless in its forthcoming A330neo.
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NewsRolls-Royce delays 787 engine upgrade to 2017
Rolls-Royce confirms that an upgraded version of the Trent 1000 engine for the Boeing 787 fleet will be delayed one year before entering service and reducing fuel burn levels to the originally promised standard.