All Systems & Interiors news – Page 901
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Alpha Space Station faces a new crisis
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA IS TO REJECT Russian proposals to include the Mir 1 space station as part of the Alpha International Space Station programme (Flight International, 6-12 December). The US space agency confirms that Russia has made the proposal, but says: "We do not want ...
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SOHO launched on Sun-watch mission
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency's 1,850kg Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), built by Matra Marconi Space, was launched successfully on 2 December by a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS booster from Cape Canaveral, Florida. From its vantage point in solar orbit 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth, called the Lagrangian Point, where the ...
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Iberia row escalates
TENSIONS ARE rising between the Spanish Government and the European Com- mission (EC) over the long-awaited decision on state aid for Iberia, with Spain raising the threat of legal action if Brussels continues to withhold approval. The issue hit the headlines, after transport minister Juan Manuel Eguiagaray suggested ...
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European airlines press for fast ground-handling reform
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS EUROPE'S AIRLINE chiefs have called on the region's politicians not to drag their feet over plans to liberalise the airport ground-handling market. The warning came from the Association of European Airlines (AEA), two days before Europe's air-transport ministers were due to meet on ...
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IPTN/Ericsson look at CN-235 variant
INDUSTRI Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) and Ericsson are studying development of a maritime-surveillance version of the CN-235 turboprop for the Indonesian air force. Ericsson has proposed fitting the Indonesian-built version of the CN-235 with a dorsal-mounted Erieye electronically scanned phased-array radar. The aircraft would be able to accommodate ...
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Honeywell wins American deal
AMERICAN AIRLINES HAS selected the Honeywell/ Trimble HT9100 satellite-based navigation system for a fleetwide retrofit of 340 Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and MD-80s. The contract, is the first major fleet satellite-navigation avionics contract awarded, since the introduction of the Boeing/Honeywell FANS 1 system and is the ...
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Northwest crew is punished for Brussels miscue
NORTHWEST AIRLINES has taken stern action against the flight deck crew of a Frankfurt-bound McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40, which landed at Brussels Airport by mistake on 5 September. Northwest has completed its internal probe of the incident, which has resulted in the captain "taking early retirement" the first officer ...
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KLM
Jan Meurer has been named vice-president for operations at Dutch national carrier KLM, replacing Henny Essenbert, who becomes group managing director, for Air UK. Enno Osinga succeeds Meurer as vice-president for customer service at KLM Cargo. He was formerly manager of cabin- crew divisions and deputy to the manager of ...
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Booking cyberseat
British Midland will be the first airline to provide a reservations booking service with payment on the Internet. To be known as CyberSeat, the service enables travellers to specify a chosen route, date of travel and the number of seats required, and to make payment by credit card. Personal information ...
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Boeing 777: shake, rattle and roll?
Sir - I have recently flown on "Friendly Skies'" new "Mega Twin" (United Airlines' Boeing 777) and there is no doubt that the aircraft is most impressive in terms of space and cabin layout. One thing surprised me, however, and that was the high level of noise and ...
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Boeing tackles 'tail-wag' problem on United 777s
Guy Norris/SEATTLE BOEING PLANS TO MAKE changes to the 777 gust-response system as part of efforts to eliminate a slow yawing motion, or "tail-wag", experienced by crews on the first few United Airlines aircraft. "We sent a team out to fly with the aircraft on revenue ...
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AlliedSignal wins 2h cockpit-voice recorder certification
A solid-state cockpit-voice recorder (SSCVR) made by AlliedSignal Aerospace, which stores 2h of digitally recorded sound, has received US Federal Aviation Administration certification. An SSCVR will be required on all Part 121 transport-category aircraft in Europe by April 1997, and AlliedSignal believes that the FAA will require the ...
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UK firm starts work on new low-cost amphibian
A LOW-COST TWIN-engined amphibian aircraft based on the Pilatus Britten-Norman (PBN) Islander is being developed by a new UK aircraft company. Ross Aircraft has already successfully tested a one-fifth-scale model in proof-of-concept trials on a Scottish lake and is in negotiations with potential backers in a bid to ...
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Sabena hit by strike
Herman De Wulf/BRUSSELS STRIKING SABENA workers closed down the airline on 29 November in the first of what is expected to be a series of industrial actions following the abrupt cancellation of all labour agreements on 27 November. The unprecedented contract move surprised observers who are ...
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No 'fire sale' at USAir
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON, DC USAir REMAINS receptive to strategic alliances, up to and including a merger with another airline, according to Seth Schofield, the carrier's chairman and chief executive. Speaking after the USAir Group's annual stockholders' meeting, Schofield estimated that the airline will have $1 billion in ...
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Air traffic mismanagement
The Western air-transport industry realised around 1989 that the most enormous commercial opportunity in the entire transition to the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) was opening up before its very eyes: Russia needed a new navigation infrastructure. Since then it has deluged Moscow with advice - some of it wrong, ...
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Suppliers
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will design, develop and produce the fuselage and tail for the de Havilland Dash 8-400. Timco has been awarded the contract to carry out T-cap repairs and complete the interior refurbishment of Northwest Airlines DC9-30s. Sita has signed Russian carrier Vnukovo ...
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Going to market
Airport marketing is coming of age, as airports work harder to attract new airlines, new routes and new hub operations. Richard Whitaker reports from the recent route development conference in Cannes. Airports represent the last industry to discover marketing. So says Mike Howarth of Airport Strategy and Marketing which, along ...
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Brave new shoots
The emergence of a new generation of start up carriers in Europe has finally begun. Sara Guild talks to some of the new players and examines their strategies for survival.It's a bit like attending the Academy Awards and not knowing when the envelopes will be opened. European aviation has been ...
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From bust to boom in a year
The good times are here again - but nobody can predict for just how longIt's at times like this that largesse takes over. As 1995 draws to a close, it is clear that at long last we have a vintage year for airline profitability - Iata says its members will ...