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Delta to offer one premium class on long-haul flights
Delta Air Lines plans to replace its existing intercontinental first- and business-class service with "new, premium two-class service" in the spring of 1999. The new in-flight cabin service product will replace the two premium classes that Delta offers today on long-haul services with one. The marketing effort will include ...
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GPS suppliers set to tackle security
Steve Nichols How secure is satellite navigation? The US Global Positioning System (GPS) has 24 satellites - 21 active and three spare - orbiting the earth in just under 12 hours. A basic GPS receiver usually needs to "see" at least four to plot position and altitude ...
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THY orders 737-800 full-flight simulator
THY Turkish Airlines has ordered a Boeing 737-800 full-flight simulator (FFS) from CAE Electronics. The simulator is to be delivered late next year and installed at the national carrier's flight training centre in Istanbul. The sale is CAE's first to THY, which has also ordered a computer-based Next Generation 737 ...
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Lord system cuts 70% of noise
Lord Corporation's active noise and vibration control system, which it calls NVX, has received FAA certification for both DC-9 and MD-80 aircraft. The system features a new actuator design with a reduction in power requirements - down to 300 watts. Programme manager Becky Weih says it is also simpler to ...
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Air con system ready for flight test
Microtecnica of Italy has delivered its first vapour cycle air conditioning system to Sikorsky for flight testing on the new S-92 Helibus. First flight with the system is scheduled for later this year with system qualification testing to be completed by the end of 1999. The system provides ...
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Laptop link-up
Businessmen planning to work while they travel no longer need to carry a spare laptop battery, thanks to a collaboration between Primex Aerospace and Airline Interiors, both part of the Simula group. The two companies have developed a system called Empower which allows passengers to connect their laptops to ...
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Europeans team to challenge Jeppesen dominance
The specialised world of flight planning and documentation, long dominated by US giant Jeppesen, is set for its biggest shake-up ever through the formation of an alliance of three of Europe's key players in the field. Lufthansa Group's Lido unit, SAS Flight Support (SASFS), and Air France Aeronautical are ...
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Fairchild introduces 728JET suppliers
Mark Hannant The next stage of Fairchild Aerospace's programme to build the 728JET family of regional jets was announced at the show yesterday as the company introduced the system suppliers it has chosen for the project. As announced last month, General Electric will provide CF34-8D engines incorporating a ...
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Unison president Sontag likes a market challenge
Steve Nichols It's not often you get to meet a true entrepreneur, but if anyone deserves the title, Fred Sontag, president of Unison does. His company is the number one manufacturer of electrical devices for aero engines, with sales of more than $150 million. But it's how the ...
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Matsushita links with Honeywell in key IFE move
In-flight entertainment (IFE) market-leader Matsushita Avionics Systems (MASC) is to team with Honeywell in a move which promises to alter the evolution of the industry significantly. The agreement marries MASC's leading-edge expertise in creating interactive IFE software operating platforms with Honeywell's communications and data-management skills. It is set ...
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Pascall harnesses meteors for backup link
What do you do if your communications satellite malfunctions and HF links fail you too? According to Pascall (Hall 4/G5) you use meteors! Using reflections from trails of gas, caused by meteorites entering the earth's atmosphere, it's possible to establish two-way VHF communications over quite long path lengths. ...
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Swissair pioneers data-handling with Honeywell
Swissair and Honeywell will later this year begin trials of new avionics designed to ease the flow of cockpit and cabin data on and off aircraft. Honeywell will fit its Total Aircraft Information System (TAIS) in a single Airbus A321 as part of a collaborative project called SkyLink to ...
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Boeing does not believe that Y2K problems will be as bad as first thought
Guy Norris/Seattle The year 2000 software nightmare scenario is like something from the 1951 science fiction classic The Day The Earth Stood Still in which an omnipotent alien paralyses the world by shutting down every electrically operated device for an hour. If Boeing is right, nothing like ...
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Eurocontrol
Julian Moxon/PARIS Bringing European air trafÞc control (ATC) computers up to year 2000 standard is taxing both the national service providers and the Brussels-based Eurocontrol organisation, which has responsibility for the Maastricht upper airspace region and for the central ßow management units (CFMUs) at Paris, France, and Brussels, Belgium. ...
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Airbus to cross finishing line
Max Kingsley-Jones/TOULOUSE Airbus Industrie set up a task force several years ago to examine the potential impact of the Y2K software problem on its aircraft. The consortium has concluded that there are only a few minor issues that will affect its products. It does, however, warn that it cannot ...
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Sabena A340 suffers as landing gear collapses
A Sabena Airbus A340-200 has been severely damaged in an incident which saw the aircraft's right main landing gear fail at the end of its landing run at Brussels Airport, Belgium, on 29 August. The damage is expected to take four months to repair, says the airline. Following the ...
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Delta/United alliance dies
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The refusal of Delta Air Lines directors to give its pilots a voting seat on the board have scuttled plans for a wide ranging alliance with United Airlines. The strategic alliance proposal included a code-share which had to be approved by pilots' groups represented by the ...
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Qatar steps up expansion with plans for new long-haul aircraft
MaxKingsley-Jones/LONDON Qatar Airways is accelerating its fleet expansion, with discussions for the lease of up to six Airbus A330s as part of a plan to boost long-haul operations. The Doha-based airline recently concluded a deal to bolster its short-haul fleet with A320s, placing an order for up to 11 ...
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Strikes ground North American airlines
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Brian Dunn/MONTREAL The first week of strikes by pilots at Northwest Airlines and Air Canada have crippled the two carriers' operations. Estimates put the revenue losses in the two unconnected labour disputes at over $150 million by 5 September. Northwest was the first to be ...
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Time's Up
Awareness of the year 2000 computer problem has reached that level in industrialised nations where any casual mention of the Millennium Bug is likely to elicit accusations of hype. That should worry those nations' airlines, as they fly daily into regions of the world where awareness of the date rollover ...