All Systems & interiors articles – Page 890
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Ceaseless turmoil
Europe's SOHO spacecraft is showing that the Sun is proving tobe a surprisingly dynamic star. Tim Furniss/LONDON EVERYONE IS IMPRESSED by the SOHO's performance, says Roget Bonnet, the European Space Agency's (ESA) director of science. "By the end of the mission, we shall know the Sun far better ...
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NEC wins a massive ICO space contract
Tim Furniss/LONDON ICO GLOBAL Communications, the Inmarsat affiliate which plans to provide a global voice, data, facsimile and messaging mobile-satellite communications system from 2000 (Flight International, 4-10 October, 1995, P44), has awarded a $500 million contract to a consortium led by NEC of Japan to provide the ground-segment-systems ...
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Home run
Delta Air Lines is welcoming the 1996 Olympics to its home town of Atlanta, Georgia, with a major sponsorship operation. Karen Walker/ATLANTA FEW COMPANIES EPITOMISE the corporate USA as neatly as Delta Air Lines, with its under-stated red, white and blue livery and conservative reputation. The appearance, therefore, ...
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Where you train is not always where you end up flying
Sir - As a licensed US Federal Aviation Administration commercial pilot, I support the plea for international standards for flight training in the article "Unique Internationalism" (Flight International, 8-14 May, P3). There are some points which need taking up, however. Firstly, there is the argument that a UK ...
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AEA slams European ATC performance
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS KARL-HEINZ Neumeister, secretary-general of the Association of European Airlines (AEA) has led an attack on Europe's "increasing" flight delays, "lousy" air-traffic control (ATC) and "scandalous" route charges. He complains that European airlines are being saddled with unnecessary costs, putting them at a disadvantage ...
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AlliedSignal to offer Iridium service
ALLIEDSIGNAL IS TO provide an aeronautical-telecommunications service using the Iridium satellite-based mobile-telephone system. The service is due to be available early in 1999 and is expected to undercut Inmarsat-based satellite-communications costs, rivalling those of terrestrial flight-telephone systems. The tie-up with AlliedSignal is revealed in the Flight InternationaI newsletter, ...
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Ametek introduces monitor to keep track of regional-turboprop balances
AMETEK AEROSPACE Products has introduced a system to give fast, accurate propeller balancing, allowing regional-turboprop operators to keep down damaging vibration levels throughout an aircraft's life. The Balance Monitoring System automatically stores vibration data in flight. These data are then downloaded to a ground-based lap-top computer which calculates ...
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Working to capacity
To increase airport capacity, NASA is working to get aircraft off the runway and to the terminal faster. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA INCREASES IN airspace capacity promised by new air-traffic-management technologies such as Free Flight will challenge airports' ability to cope unless control of aircraft on the ground is similarly ...
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Japan's carriers make gains
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Kevin O'Toole/LONDON GROWING international traffic has helped Japan Airlines (JAL) return to profitability for the first time in five years and has further strengthened the recovery at All Nippon Airways (ANA) JAL bounced back into the black for the first time since 1990, with ...
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Jeppesen to standardise European charts
JEPPESEN HAS enhanced its visual-flight-rules/global-positioning-system navigation charts for six European countries, as part of an initiative to create standard formats across the region and help flight planning. Charts for Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland have been enhanced in the run-up to changes in border-crossing regulations. ...
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ValuJet CVR confirms fire-in-cabin theory
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The existence of an intense fire in the cabin has now been confirmed by the cockpit-voice recorder (CVR) as being a likely cause of the ValuJet McDonnell Douglas DC-9 accident in Florida on 11 May. Flight- and cabin-crew exchanges indicate that the fire ...
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Wilcox makes formal WAAS protest to FAA
WILCOX ELECTRIC has issued a formal protest against the award of the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) contract to Hughes Aircraft, its former subcontractor on the $475 million programme. Wilcox says that the protest follows discovery that the US Federal Aviation Administration "-had given Hughes more time to ...
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Why not use the safer Halon gas?
Sir - During the 1980s, I campaigned (unsuccessfully) for the withdrawal of highly toxic Halon 1211 portable extinguishers from flightdecks and cabins, suggesting their replacement by five-times-safer Halon 1301. My fear was - and remains - that 1211, in the confined space of a flightdeck, could cause the ...
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More than illusion
Graham Warwick/ORLANDO THINK OF ORLANDO, Florida, and you are likely to think of Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and Sea World. Managers of Orlando International Airport would like you to think also of a vibrant community of young, affluent, people, working not only in tourism, but also in ...
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Airline news
Air Canada is reducing its shareholding in Continental Airlines to 10 per cent, while retaining 4 per cent voting power, and plans to sell its remaining holding by early 1997. Continental will start a weekly New York/Newark-Dusseldorf flight in July. United Airlines will launch nonstop Chicago-Hong Kong services ...
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JAL's internet
Japan Airlines will introduce ticketless travel in the domestic market this month, including sales through travel agents. From July, JAL will become the first Asian carrier to offer domestic bookings via the Internet. Source: Airline Business
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Trust US for new allies?
Washington's aviation scene is bubbling with potential alliance building and demolition, after the US Department of Transportation tentatively approved the application for antitrust immunity between United Airlines and Lufthansa. 'There is no question that all kinds of conversations are going nonstop and the immunity applications are the big ...
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BA savours American pie
The impending alliance between American Airlines and British Airways confirms that US international aviation policy over the last two years has had a dramatic impact on the global airline industry. BA and American officials were preparing the accord at presstime. Sources say that a two-year discussion finally yielded ...
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A clearer direction?
A spring-clean of the alliance movement has taken place over the past year, with many of the majors dusting off and discarding some of their older, redundant agreements and focusing instead on developing newer ones. Meanwhile the number of alliances continues to grow as more pertinent agreements are added by ...
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UPS closes on Taipei hub
The decisions by United Parcel Service and DHL to launch Asian hubs commit all four of the big express cargo carriers to the Orient. The question now is which of the differing strategies will work and whether they will avoid the bloody shakedown that followed a similar scramble four years ...