All Systems & Interiors news – Page 223
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US Airways advanced navigation: why RNP?
APPROVALS WHY USE REQUIRED NAVIGATION PERFORMANCE? US AIRWAYS is one of a growing number of carriers that are preparing aircraft and flightcrews...
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B/E reports $74m first quarter pre-tax earnings
B/E Aerospace has reported pre-tax earnings of $73.9 million for the first quarter, a 44% increase compared with the same period last year.
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Korean completes refurbishing fleet
Korean Air has completed its refurbishment plan to install new first-, business- and economy-class seats and in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems on its...
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Air India 737 captain deeply asleep shortly before fatal approach
Indian investigators have cited a lethal combination of sleep inertia and over-dominance by the captain as having led to the fatal overrun by an Air India...
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FAA administrator Babbitt wants to see MROs adopt SMS
US FAA administrator Randy Babbitt is urging maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) firms to formally adopt safety management systems, saying SMSs will play...
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Jetstar to roll out new seats on half of its narrowbodies
The Qantas group's low-cost subsidiary Jetstar Airways will retrofit approximately half of its Airbus narrow-body aircraft fleet with new B/E Aerospace's...
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Qatar Airways outlines plans for strategic partnerships
Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker has revealed that the airline is in dialogue about acquiring a stake in an unidentified airline. He has...
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Panasonic looks to test new Ka-band antenna by 2Q 2012
Panasonic Avionics is pressing forward with the development of a new Ka-band antenna and hybrid Ku/Ka antenna to support ultra-high-speed airborne Internet...
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VIDEO: Airlines await Boeing response as Airbus racks up A320neo orders
As Airbus racks up orders for its A320neo, airlines face the dilemma of whether to join the queue for the higher-efficiency twinjet or gamble on waiting for a competitive response from Seattle
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Talks underway to resolve BA cabin crew dispute
Negotiations to resolve the long-running dispute between British Airways (BA) and members of its cabin crew are showing signs of progress, following a series...
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US Army continues search for better scout helicopter
The US Army's search for a more capable armed scout helicopter continues, but most of the signs are pointing back to an improved version of the Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warrior.
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Airbus resists pressure to scale up A350-1000
Airbus is not intending to change the size of the A350-1000 as it heads towards definition freeze for the twinjet by the end of this year, although it has...
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WATS 2011: Boeing evolves maintenance training
Boeing is evolving its training programs from "chalk and talk" toward "bolt-on" specialty courses that are increasingly on-line and distance learning enabled....
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WATS 2011: Maintenance industry calls for action on fatigue
A group of 30 government, industry and academia officials is calling for a broad slate of fatigue countermeasures to be implemented in US maintenance organizations....
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Rockwell Collins breaks low-cost HUD barrier
Rockwell Collins shows off its all-new low-cost display Self-contained unit for light to midsize jets comes...
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Lees Avionics provides collision warning system for UK's Grob Tutors
Babcock has contracted Lees Avionics to perform a safety upgrade on 93 Grob 115E Tutor elementary trainers aircraft for the UK Ministry of Defence ...
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Ryanair to test reserved seating
Low-cost carrier Ryanair's decision to break with long-established practice and trial reserved seating on board its services has been driven by passenger...
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EASA certificates TCAS 7.1 modification
Avionics joint venture ACSS has received European certification for the Change 7.1 modification of its traffic collision-avoidance systems TCAS 2000 and...
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European air navigation service providers work as a team to aid SES progress
ALLIANCE FAB partnerships Parallel with SESAR Joint Undertaking-driven processes, several other complementary changes are evolving alongside...
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Single European Sky starts to show signs of progress
The Single European Sky is starting to show signs of progress, although the real surge is not likely to begin until 2013