All Systems & interiors articles – Page 886
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Dashing looks
Modified Dash 8s are to be used in Australia for maritime-patrol missions. Flight International test-flew one of them. Harry Hopkins/OSLO COASTAL PATROL IS increasingly vital to countries with extensive shorelines, whether they be interested in smuggling, illegal immigration, unapproved fishing or sea pollution. Well over a dozen ...
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Sikorsky selects medical-interior supplier
SIKORSKY HAS chosen Air Methods to supply aeromedical interiors for more than 90 UH-60Q medical-evacuation helicopters planned for the US Army and National Guard. Air Methods supplied the interior for a proof-of-concept UH-60Q completed in 1993, but had to bid competitively for production. The Denver, Colorado-based company ...
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Under oversight?
FIRST, THE FEDERAL Aviation Administration in the USA was the target: now it is the Civil Aviation Authority in the UK. Each has been accused of failing to maintain satisfactory oversight of airline maintenance operations. If they cannot satisfy the expectations of the travelling public and their legal representatives, are ...
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Pressure drop
An America West Airbus A320 lost cabin pressure at 33,000ft (10,000m) shortly after take-off from Columbus, Ohio, en route to Newark, New Jersey, on 12 July. The crew made an emergency landing at Port Columbus International Airport. None of the 37 passengers and seven crew members were injured. ...
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Chinese trainers
Thomson Training & Simulation, with STS of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Xifei Simulator Factory of Xian, China, is to supply four cabin-crew trainers to China Southwest Airlines. The Boeing 757/Airbus A340 emergency-evacuation, 757 cabin-service and 737 and 757 door trainers will be delivered to Chengdu in late 1997. Source: ...
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United and MDC test cockpit weather link
UNITED AIRLINES and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) have begun flight tests of a system to display real-time weather information in the cockpit. A three-month in-service trial of a United MDC DC-10, equipped with the cockpit weather-information system (CWIN), is to begin following certification of the equipment. Tests are being ...
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Deja deja vu
THE JAPANESE AND US Governments are once again going to the edge in the latest round of bilateral-air-service negotiations by threatening each other with sanctions and counter-sanctions. The news has been greeted by industry observers, in Tokyo and Washington, with a collective cry of "here we go again". ...
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Hub crack is blamed for MD-88 fan failure
A FATIGUE crack in the fan hub is the likely cause of the uncontained failure of a Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 powering a Delta McDonnell Douglas MD-88. Two passengers were killed and four injured when the left-engine fan disintegrated, sending debris into the cabin during the take-off run of Flight ...
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Air Malta outlines plans for Azzura Air
AIR MALTA has purchased two AI(R) Avro RJ85s to start its new Italian-based venture AzzuraAir. The airline expects to add a third aircraft to the order by the end of July (Flight International, 22-28 May). Joseph Tabone, the Air Malta chairman, says that he expects to launch AzzuraAir ...
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The cabin challenge
Perceptions of new cabin dangers are emerging as old problems resurface. Paul Phelan/CAIRNS David Learmount/LONDON AIRLINE PASSENGERS ignore safety briefings because they believe that it is the cabin crew's responsibility to protect them, according to recent research. Professor Helen Muir, of Cranfield University in the UK, ...
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Equal rights
Paul Duffy/BOCA RATON, FLORIDA THE DEMAND FOR OLDER aircraft, particularly for freighters, is rising strongly because operators are beginning to realise that the economics of using older aircraft can result in considerable cost savings. According to Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC), world air cargo will continue ...
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Test of faith
NO-ONE BENEFITS when accident-investigation agencies clash over the cause of an air crash. The arguments may be based on genuine grievances, but they only serve to deflect attention from the wider issues at stake. It has happened this week because the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has ...
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Flying into the future
Communications, navigation and surveillance in European airspace will be substantially different in the next decade - but how different? Kieran Daly/LONDON AROUND THE WORLD, air-traffic-services (ATS) providers are coming to terms with how the advent of the future air-navigation system will affect their airspace. For dozens of nations, ...
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It's the passengers who matter
Sir - The argument that "-the airline industry needs to bring public perceptions and expectations in line with reality" in your Comment, "Means to and end" (Flight International, 3-9 July), surely needs to be turned on its head. The airlines need to listen to what the customer wants and expects, ...
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Messier deal
Kuwait Airways has selected Messier-Bugatti to overhaul the landing gear of its entire Airbus Industrie fleet from 1999, in a deal potentially worth Fr40 million ($7.8 million). The contract covers five A300-600s, four A310-300s, three A320s, and four A340s. Source: Flight International
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UNS-1 challenge
Canadian-based Innotech has installed dual Universal Avionics UNS-1B Plus flight-management systems on a Bombardier Canadair Challenger 601-3R. The systems replace standard Honeywell units and will interface with two Universal global-positioning-system GPS-1200 12-channel receivers. Source: Flight International
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Saab improves 2000 dispatch reliability
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH SAAB AIRCRAFT is modifying the Saab 2000 turboprop to overcome dispatch-reliability problems, which afflicted the fleets of Deutsche BA and Crossair during the European winter. According to Saab operations chief Johan Oster, the aircraft is now operating at close to its target of 99% ...
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Airbus tackles A320 pilot shortage
Andrew Doyle/LONDON AN AIRBUS INDUSTRIE pilot team is attempting to improve the utilisation rate of Indian Airlines' A320 fleet. The team, which consists of Airbus training captains and airline check-pilots, has been dispatched to the airline in an effort to help it overcome a shortage ...
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Scientists work on software to help damaged aircraft land
Andrew Doyle/LONDON Aircraft, which suffer major equipment failures or explosions, could be landed safely using software developed jointly at NASA Ames Research Center and McDonnell Douglas (MDC). The new research envisages that in less than 1s a damaged aircraft's computers would be able to "relearn" ...
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Sky balance
EVER SINCE taking up the post of European transport commissioner, Neil Kinnock has been itching to take on responsibility for global air-traffic agreements between Europe and third countries. At last he appears to be making progress. In June, Europe's air-transport ministers agreed to let Kinnock open talks ...