All Systems & interiors articles – Page 783
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FAA hotline for counterfeit product reports
Tamzin Hindmarch The US Federal Aviation Administration has set up a free hotline for people wishing to report suspected unapproved aircraft parts. Such products may look the same, but if they do not comply with FAA standards they may not be of the same high quality or be ...
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Catering deal
Aviation services firm Alpha Airports has bought a British Airways in-flight catering operation at Gatwick for $22.4 million. It has also struck a new 10-year deal with BA to supply in-flight catering at Gatwick and other regional airports. It expects turnover to be around $96 million in the first ...
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Crew collapse traced to cargo door crack
New details of a depressurisation incident on the world's highest time Boeing 737-200 now revealed by investigators tell how the captain and senior flight attendant spent several minutes unconscious when a crack that had gone undetected for 17 years let cabin air escape. The aircraft, of UK charter ...
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Ipeco keeps watch on bottom line
Crew on the new Boeing 717 have the full support of Ipeco - quite literally . Ipeco has designed and manufactured the flight deck and cabin attendant seating on the aircraft, making its European debut at Paris '99. Ipeco's portfolio currently contains more than 50 models, used by ...
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Air transport
Smiths Industries Aerospace and Alaska Airlines won the Air Transport award for using Smiths' flight management system (FMS) and GPS to eliminate non-precision approaches. The team pioneered required navigation performance 0.15 approach and departures at Juneau Airport in Alaska. Terrain at the airport rises from sea level to ...
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Horizon Air launches QUIET Q400 in North America
Alan Peaford Horizon Air has become the North American launch customer of Bombardier's Q400 in a $321-million deal announced at the show yesterday. The Seattle-based airline placed a firm order for 15 of the super quiet 70-passenger aircraft with options on an additional 15. Bombardier announced a ...
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Smoke success
An industry study has provided a conclusive demonstration that head up displays (HUDs) offer a significant improvement in viewing conditions over conventional electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) displays in a cockpit smoke environment. Marconi Avionics' study programme for civil air transport aircraft investigated the operation of its commercial Visual ...
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Comfort on the ground
Passenger comfort even before they leave the ground is the name of the game for Kusch of Germany. Kusch's distinctive stainless steel bench seating can be found in airports from Johannesburg to Dublin. As well as being durable and vandalism-resistant, the seating offers good comfort - and great looks. ...
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VGS certification
Certification is expected to be completed this summer for Cat3 operation of Marconi Avionics' Visual Guidance System (VGS) on board a Boeing 737-800. This programme is directly linked to the award of a contract for up to 500 Visual Guidance Systems planned for American Airlines new-build Boeing 737-800 fleet ...
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TV support
Rockwell's Collins Aviation Services has been selected to provide product support of seat-back TV In-Flight Entertainment equipment on board British Airways' Boeing 747 and 777 aircraft. Source: Flight Daily News
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Touch of southern France from Mors
We may be in Paris, but you'll be forgiven for thinking you're in southern France if you visit the Mors stand in Hall 2/G6. The company has transformed its stand into a cosy cottage, complete with tiled roof and fountains. And if you do pop in for a ...
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UltraQuiet system for Swedish fleet
Tamzin Hindmarch Ultra Electronics has secured its first retrofit customer for the UltraQuiet cabin system on Saab 340A and 340B aircraft. Golden Air of Sweden was to sign a letter of intent today to buy five cabin systems for its Saab 340 fleet from the UK-based company. ...
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Face the facts with Mike Terrett
Mike Terrett became the new president at International Aero Engines in November, making Paris '99 his first major air show since that appointment. Terrett inherits a company that is on a roll - IAE's V2500 enjoyed spectacular success in 1998, taking 55% of the Airbus A320 market - but ferocious ...
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Debut for 'flying phone exchange'
History was made at Le Bourget yesterday when the spectacular Halo-Proteus took to the skies in its international debut. This was the first time a stratospheric aircraft had flown at the Paris air show and the first time the aircraft has been seen outside its home base in Mojave, ...
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Litton proud of contribution to Eurofighter
Geoff Thomas Next time you see the Eurofighter flying in the display, try standing next to a senior person from Litton Industries... and you'll notice the dollar-signs light up in their eyes! Each Eurofighter carries more than $1 million worth of content made by LITEF, a German company based ...
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GECI inks Fairchild Dornier contract
Paris-based GECI Technologies has clinched a contract to help design the complete fuselage and cockpit of Fairchild Dornier's regional 728JET. One hundred and twenty of these advanced 70-seaters have already been ordered by Lufthansa, with 90- and 50-seat versions scheduled to enter service in 2003 and 2004 respectively. ...
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HGS breakthrough for flight simulators
The landing approach being shown above is to Tokyo Haneda airport and is being demonstrated on the first Boeing 737-700 full flight simulator produced by the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Simulation Systems division of FlightSafety International. About to be shipped to the UK, it will join the Flight- SafetyBoeing fleet of ...
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Bombardier unveils BRJ-X cabin mockup
Mark Hanant Bombardier Aerospace unveiled a mock-up of the passenger cabin of its proposed BRJ-X yesterday, but it will still be the end of the year before the final decision on launch of the 90-to-100-seat regional twin-jet airliner is announced. Following the official launch of the new Continental ...
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'Beam me up, Scotty' still a pipe dream
It looks like aircraft and engines as we know them will be with us for some time yet, despite claims that an anti-gravity device and warp drive are on the cards. Scientists at the Tampere University Institute of Materials in Finland thought they had found the holy grail recently ...
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ATR confident of sealing Indian assembly deal
Alan Dron Discussions between ATR and Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) to assemble ATR turboprops in India are "progressing fairly well", ATR chief executive officer Antoine Bouvier said at the show yesterday. He made the comment as Indian carrier Jet Airways announced it is to acquire five ATR 72-500s by ...