All Systems & Interiors news – Page 852
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Sogerma signs two conversion contracts
Groupe Aerospatiale company Sogerma announced at the show the award of two new contracts, one in Europe, the other in Asia. The Sogerma Maintenance Group has signed a contract with Airbus Industrie to convert three Airbus A330-300s for Belgian carrier Sabena. Each of the aircraft, which ...
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Kit gives tools to restrain louts in flights
A disturbing rise in the number of unruly passengers on commercial aircraft has opened a window of opportunity for British firm Percival Aviation (Hall 2/J14). The company is coming to the aid of airlines with a specially-designed passenger restraint pack. As well as 'quickcuffs', to gain ...
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Messier-Dowty lands two contracts
Franco-British joint venture Messier-Dowty has been chosen to supply undercarriage systems for two new aircraft types, the Airbus A340-500 and -600 and the Fairchild Dornier 328JET. A spokesman said at the show that the main and nose landing gears for the developed Airbus design will be a "significant ...
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Wizard export prospects for Merlin
Export prospects worth more than $1billion are "looking good" for the GKN Westland/Agusta's EH101 Merlin search and rescue helicopter which makes its debut at Paris. Canada and Portugal are due to decide later this year on whether to buy up to 30 of the helicopters, says Westland's public ...
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TriStars targeted
UK supplemental carrier British World Airlines has contracted with Classic Airways and the Independent Aviation Group (IAG) to operate L-1011 Tristars from August this year. British World operates its own fleet of BAC 1-ll, ATP, ATR and Viscount aircraft and also provides an AOC and operations service for ...
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New flight displays improve safety
The company turns the common expression around to promote the role of its large-format flight displays for high-performance aircraft manoeuvring through heavily-congested airspace. Collins Pro Line 21 avionics systems, created for the new Bell-Boeing 609 civil tiltrotor and Raytheon's new Premier I business jet, offer displays nearly 30% ...
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Help at hand for aircrews
Imagine heaving a 100kg service trolley up a 25 degree incline along an aircraft aisle. Cabin attendants do it all the time, pulling or pushing laden meal, drink, waste and sales carts. The result is often acute back problems and even sick leave, as the metal plates that ...
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Linda succeeds where Amelia Earhart failed
Sixty years after trail-blazing aviatrix Amelia Earhart's round-the-world flight ended in disaster, Linda Finch completed a commemorative circumnavigation in an identical 1935 Lockheed Electra 10E. The aircraft, powered by Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines, is the centrepiece of a special Pratt & Whitney display pavilion in the static park ...
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Open and shut case
"If it's on an aircraft and it opens, then we produce a fitting to keep it closed or locked," says Eric Mandemaker, manager of international operations for Hartwell Corporation. The Los Angeles-based 'latches' experts, who became part of Western Sky Industries earlier in the year, is in Hall ...
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Finishing touches
The finishing touches for aircraft interiors are well represented by two Austrian companies in Hall 4/D6, F4. Isovolta's Airvolt Composites division has an extensive product range comprising decorative laminates for civil aircraft interiors as well as technical composites such as laminates which can be used for floor coverings. ...
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Propjet offers attractive proposition
The new high-speed propjet Jetcruzer 500 has been unveiled by AASI Aircraft following a six-year development costing $57 million in private and public funds. The single-engine pusher aircraft is designed to provide the cheapest and highest-speed propjet transportation in the world, reports the manufacturer, with a price tag ...
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Pioneer lifts lid on vacuum
The answer to that age-old question of what happens when you flush the toilet on an aircraft can be found at the Evac stand in Hall 2/E25. The company has brought its latest vacuum toilet to Le Bourget and visitors to the stand are invited to 'have a ...
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Global presence
Leach International has marked its growing global presence by setting up a third operating business unit. The company, which manufactures electrical switching and control devices for the aerospace and rail industries, has opened Leach International Asia-Pacific in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The new operation is headed by newly-appointed president ...
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Recaro sitting pretty with AA
Recaro Aircraft Seating of Germany has just received an order from American Airlines (AA) to equip the carrier's entire narrow-body fleet with economy class seats. It's the first order American Airlines has placed with an aircraft seat supplier from outside the USA. Recaro will replace coach ...
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Aviation art gets boost from industry
One of the many things that Paris is famous for is its art, so it is appropriate that Messier-Dowty has used the show to exhibit, for the first time, an Anglo-French exhibition of aviation art. The paintings, more than 30 in total, all feature British and French aircraft ...
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Saturn 5 engine to power Shuttle fly-back booster?
Boeing engineers are considering the use of the F-1 first stage engine of the giant Saturn 5 booster that launched Apollo to the Moon to power a new fly-back booster for the Space Shutle. The company's Space Systems division - formerly Rockwell Space - has been awarded a ...
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Lord wins noise reduction approval
Lord Corporation's NVX Active Noise and Vibration Control System has become the first such product to get FAA approval for use on large jet airliner. The system has been approved by the FAA for installation on McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 series aircraft. Supplemental Type Certification was completed ...
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Eurowings expands ATR fleet
Geoff Thomas German airline Eurowings announced at Le Bourget yesterday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to buy five ATR 42-500s - plus options for a further five aircraft. Eurowings operates the largest ATR fleet in Europe which comprises 17 ATR 42-300s; six ATR 72-200s; and ...
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Corporate jet market stirred by two majors
Airbus Industrie has joined the business jet market, announcing at Le Bourget that, like Boeing, it too has launched a corporate jet. This announcement poses interesting questions for the traditional business jet manufacturers - starting with how this new competition will affect their sales. Focus falls particularly on Bombardier and ...
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Americans move to defuse fears over mega-merger
Tim Ripley Moves by the European Union to oppose the proposed controversial merger of US aerospace giants Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) are likely to end in compromise, say MDC sources at Paris. "We are confident the differences will be worked out," says Fred Hill, McDonnell Douglas senior vice-president for ...