All Systems & Interiors news – Page 917
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Reverse gear is being considered
Sir - The idea of a powered landing gear, or reverse gear for aircraft, is receiving the consideration of the Italian Office of Intellectual Property (file RM95A00318 0f 17 May, 1995, for the granting of a patent) to try to save the fees for pushback. Airbus Industrie says ...
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Honeywell clinches TracLink GPS deal at Minneapolis
HONEYWELL HAS BEEN selected by the Minneapolis/St Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC), Minnesota, to install a Honeywell/Pelorus SLS-2000 satellite-landing system and the company's recently developed vehicle-tracking system, the TracLink. Both systems are based on the global-positioning system (GPS) and will use correctional positioning information from a local-area GPS ...
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MAS profit rise fails to impress
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE MALAYSIA AIRLINES (MAS) managed to deliver its long-awaited profit recovery for the 1994/5 financial year, but the improvement failed to live up to expectations following a lack-lustre second half. The group turned in profits of M$139 million ($56.6 million) for its full year ...
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Dassault flies its Falcon 900EX for the first time
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS DASSAULT AVIATION's new Falcon 900EX long-range business jet had a successful first flight from Bordeaux-Merignac Airport on 1 June. The aircraft reached an altitude of 41,000ft (13,600m) and a speed of Mach 0.82 during its 2h flight. "The aircraft behaved beautifully," says test ...
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Collins Avionics For CRJ-X
Bombardier has chosen Collins Pro Line 4 avionics for its proposed Canadair CRJ-X 70-seat regional jet. Collins Commercial Avionics will also be responsible for systems integration. Pro Line 4 avionics are in service on the 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet (of which the CRJ-X would be a stretched version) and the ...
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MDC polls MD-11 freighter operators on smoke rules
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is canvassing MD-11 freight operators on proposed changes to the freighter configuration, which would meet new smoke-rules of the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and reduce maintenance costs. The alterations would allow loads of up to 79,450kg, while producing a net reduction (of around 130kg) ...
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DASA in talks over Korean 328 deal production
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) and South Korea's Daewoo Heavy Industries are discussing South Korean assembly of the Dornier 328 33-seat turboprop. Senior executives at Daewoo say that the talks are focused on establishing a new production line at its aerospace division's Changwon factory. ...
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EC sets open-skies schedule
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) wants to achieve a full open-skies air-transport agreement with the USA within five years, and will ask European transport ministers at the end of this month for a mandate to carry out negotiations. In a 20-page draft proposal to ...
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Jeppesen launches on-line dispatch aid
JEPPESEN HAS launched a new OnSight integrated operations- management and flight-dispatch system for airline and fleet-operators. The OnSight delivers on-line flight-management and dispatch information in near-real time, via Unix-compatible workstations. The Denver, USA-based international aviation-information services company says that the OnSight is offered as a modular system, including ...
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Sextant avionics for Mi-35M
SEXTANT AVIONIQUE has joined forces with Russian design bureau Mil and manufacturer Rostvertol to modernise and upgrade the Mi-35M helicopter. The work includes equipping the helicopter with night/adverse weather-combat capability. Sextant, which will lead several Thomson-CSF units involved in the programme, is to develop and integrate a new ...
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EC-120 first flight expected
The first flight of the EC-120 light helicopter jointly developed by Eurocopter, Singapore Technologies Aerospace and China's CATIC and HAMC was expected on 10-11 June. The EC-120, seen minus its all-composite main rotor at Eurocopter's Marignanne, France, site shortly before the Paris air show, is due for delivery in late ...
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Launching the Ariane 5
The Ariane 5 ground operation at Kourou covers 2,500Ha (5,190 acres), and is split into three main areas: the ELA3 launch site; booster zone (containing the solid-propellant plant, booster-integration building and solid-booster test stand) and cryogenic-fuel preparation zone. The site is new, and cost around Fr6.3 billion ($1.27 billion). ...
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S/MM-01
STS71 Atlantis, 23 June, 1995 Mir 19 launch-phase crew: Anatoli Solovyov, Nikolai Budarin. Mir 18 re-entry and landing phase crew: Vladimir Dezhurov, Gennadi Strekalov, Norman Thagard. Gibson will fly the Atlantis towards the Mir from below and will perform the docking using television monitors ...
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Tunnel vision?
Are Europe's airlines underestimating the impact of high-speed rail services? Andrew Chuter/LONDON If the old maxim that the customer is always right still has meaning, then the airlines that ply the world's busiest air route between London and Paris have a fight on their hands. ...
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Bite of the underdog
Airbus Industrie, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas will be competing in some vital sales contests in the near future Kieran Daly/LONDON The next few months will see the outcomes of some of the most significant aircraft sales contests in the history of the aviation business. Purchase decisions to ...
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Interactive Flight Technologies 3
Interactive Flight Technologies is exhibiting at Paris for the first time, displaying the video-on-demand in-flight entertainment network (IFEN) which Alitalia has selected for its McDonnell Douglas MD-11s. The system will allow passengers to select from up to 30 films, stored digitally and downloaded to each seat, all of which can ...
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GEC-Marconi 2 H15
GEC-Marconi Avionics will announce the first application of its active noise-control (ANC) system for aircraft at the Paris air show. Unlike existing cabin noise-cancellation systems, which are synchronised with engine rotation to reduce the processing power required, the GEC system uses a technique known as fixed-frame sampling. All the major ...
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Magellan
Magellan Systems and its European distributor Next Destination will exhibit a range of global-positioning-system (GPS) equipment for the general-aviation market. Products on display will include Magellan Skyblazer, a hand-held unit with database, moving-map display and track situation indicator; the recently launched Skyblazer LT, identical to the Skyblazer, but without a ...
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ICORE5 A15
ICORE International is showing a selection of its specialist electrical interconnect systems and hose products designed for the aerospace industry. On display for the first time in Paris will be Optilock, a new connection system designed to eliminate "lock wiring" and prevent thread decoupling under extreme vibration. Source: ...
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Jobs: unacceptable behaviour
Sir - An interesting juxtaposition of opinion emerges between Gordon Bretag's views (Flight International, Letters, 10-16 May, P89) and the comments of Emirates' Capt. Graham Jenkins in the article "Next-century strategy" (Flight International, 17-23 May, P34). Mr Bretag typifies the attitude of many in his position, where applications ...