All articles by David Learmount – Page 34
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NewsPARIS AIR SHOW: Streaming flight data back to base 'is possible and affordable'
Calgary, Canada-based AeroMechanical Services (hall 3, F49) says datastreaming is possible and affordable right now.
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PARIS AIR SHOW: ITT gathers leaders for future ATM debate at Paris
ITT (hall 3, D52), the giant company leading the US Federal Aviation Administration's deployment of automatic dependent surveillance - broadcast as a part of the country's NextGen air traffic management strategy
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PARIS AIR SHOW: FTI engineers lightning protection into composites
FTI develops lightning dissipation system
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Vietnam Airlines 'can't get new Airbuses soon enough'
Vietnam Airlines wants delivery of its just-ordered 16 Airbus A321s "as soon as possible", according to a distinctly upbeat Pham Ngoc Minh, the carrier's president and chief executive, who signed the formal order for the aircraft in a ceremony at the Paris air show.
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Low-cost mini UAV launches at Paris
Southern France-based Aeroart has announced its first product at Le Bourget - a very low cost micro unmanned air system dubbed Featherlite. The company's...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: CAE to help build virtual CSeries for total testing
Montreal, Canada-based simulator manufacturer CAE (hall 3, C38) is working with Bombardier (hall 2E, E111) to produce the first full flight simulator for the CSeries next-generation single-aisle twinjet
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Honeywell bids for slice of SESAR pie
US electronics giant Honeywell is making a bid to be the only big non-European player in Europe's future air traffic management programme SESAR. Paolo...
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PARIS AIR SHOW:Bell runs lifetime eco study
Bell evaluates whole-life green impact Bell Helicopter has announced a lifecycle ecological study which will encompass its entire business and all...
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PARIS AIR SHOW:Honeywell aims for smarter landings
Honeywell is using the Paris air show to launch a new approach and landing safety product that works by extending the capabilities of its enhanced ground...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: NRC windtunnel tests check C-17 high-lift boost
Boeing has been verifying aerodynamic advances to its C-17 military heavy-lifter using the National Research Council Canada (NRC) low-speed windtunnel to...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Honeywell launches overrun warning system
Honeywell is using the Paris air show to launch a new approach and landing safety product designed to reduce the risk of runway overruns following...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Cyclone gets under Embraer's skin
Canada's Cyclone Manufacturing announced at Le Bourget that it has been contracted by Embraer to supply critical structural components for the Brazilian...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Parker controls the C-Series
Parker Aerospace (hall 5, D36) has won contracts for four systems in the recently launched Bombardier CSeries airliner, including the fly-by-wire flight...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Parker system removes water from fuel
In January 2008 a British Airways Boeing 777 force-landed short of the runway at London Heathrow airport because ice in the fuel feed system meant the engines...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Rockwell Collins plunges into crowded pool
Rockwell Collins (hall 4, B17) has plunged into the crowded waters of the civil airline training market with its Core flight simulation system, showing at...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Engine icing research breakthrough
Boeing and the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC, Hall 3, E41) have chosen Le Bourget to announce that they may have cracked the mystery of how ice...
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Air France crash inquiry stalls over missing data
Data transmitted from the Air France Airbus A330 that crashed into the South Atlantic has given French accident investigators some insight into a range of...
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PARIS AIR SHOW: Perception by wire
Fly by wire is now a mature concept common to most modern aircraft. But how will the sysem architecture evolve in the future?
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Investigators puzzle over Air France A330 loss
If air accident investigators fail to find significant parts of the wreckage of the Air France A330-200 that crashed into the Atlantic it could mark one...
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How the autopilot/flight director TCAS works
Airbus has radically modified the interface that pilots use to react to resolution advisories from the aircraft's on-board traffic alert and collision avoidance...