All Systems & interiors articles – Page 894
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Airline speak: a beginner's guide
In this industry people rarely mean what they say. Here's what they really mean.As airline startups multiply and established carriers recruit new management teams, there is a steady influx of new blood into this industry. Newcomers listening to the old hands talking might make the cardinal error of assuming that ...
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Airline news
Virgin Atlantic will start thrice weekly services from London/ Heathrow to Johannesburg from October. British Airways is to ban smoking on all flights to US and Caribbean destinations, except where more than one daily flight is available. South African Airways has resumed service to Buenos Aires ...
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Agents for change
All the major computer reservations systems recently signed distribution agreements in China. Elaine White outlines the Chinese travel agent scene and looks at the potential for automating what will become the world's largest travel market.China's travel and tourism industry may be relatively new, but it is already one of the ...
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Xionix wins United upgrade
XIONIX SIMULATION HAS won a United Airlines contract to upgrade Boeing 747 and 757 auto-flight-systems trainers previously supplied to the carrier. The upgrade will include Xionix' FMC Emulator, which uses actual aircraft flight-management-computer (FMC) software. The personal-computer-based FMC Emulator has been developed jointly with FMC supplier Honeywell and ...
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Virgin European plans June start-up
Andrew Doyle/LONDON VIRGIN EUROPEAN Airways could begin operations in June if it goes ahead with plans to acquire a controlling stake in EuroBelgian Airlines (EBA). The UK airline has confirmed that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to acquire an 80% stake in ...
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Hughes deals change shape of commercial simulator fleet
HUGHES FLIGHT Training in the UK has announced a series of deals, which will result in a reshaping of its commercial flight-simulator fleet. The London Gatwick-based independent training centre, formerly British Caledonian Flight Training has repositioned a Boeing 737-300/400 simulator, from Gatwick to Alaska Airlines' training centre in ...
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Bell and Samsung to launch twin
BELL HELICOPTER Textron and South Korea's Samsung Aerospace are planning joint development of a new light twin-turbine helicopter, tentatively designated the Model 427. Certification is scheduled for late 1998. The 427 is intended to be a rival for the Eurocopter EC 135 and McDonnell Douglas MD Explorer, says Bell chairman ...
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Bell Boeing moves closer to civil tilt-rotor decision
Bell Boeing will make a decision on launching development of a nine-passenger civil tilt-rotor, dubbed the D600, "later this year", says Bell Helicopter Textron president Webb Joiner. Bell and Boeing Helicopters are conducting pre-design studies into the market for a 6,350kg-class tilt-rotor, he says. A cabin mock-up has ...
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DGPS approaches
Airport interest in satellite-based precision approaches is growing, as the potential benefits become evident. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA IN 1995, THE INTERNATIONAL aviation community, granted a stay of execution, to the venerable instrument-landing-system (ILS), while paving the way for its eventual replacement, by the global-positioning system (GPS). ...
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US airlines back in profit - for now
US airlines are back in profit, but the lessons of recession linger on. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE NOTORIOUS business cycles of the airline industry have at last come full circle for the US carriers. Just two years ago, three of the majors were fighting their way out of ...
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Taiwan to produce MD-95 empennage
AERO INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (AIDC) of Taiwan has been selected to develop and manufacture the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-95 empennage. AIDC is eager to take on more commercial work, to reduce its reliance on Taiwan's Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF) programme, which is expected to be wound down by 1998. Meanwhile, ...
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Bombardier plans improved CL-415
BOMBARDIER PLANS a six-point product-improvement package to diversify the capabilities of the Canadair CL-415 water-scooping amphibious fire bomber. A finite fire-fighting market and interest from Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand (for additional aircraft) and Turkey in "missionised" derivatives has prompted the manufacturer to consider ...
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Extra EA400 tourer nears maiden flight
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Extra-Flugzeugbau expects to conduct the maiden flight of its Extra EA400 touring aircraft by mid-March. The company says that the aircraft is in a final round of ground tests leading up to its aerial debut. The exact date of the ...
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Slow rise to recovery
Although the helicopter industry continues to struggle, the HAI convention booms. Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Julian Moxon/PARIS HELI-EXPO '96, THE Helicopter Association International (HAI) convention in Dallas, Texas, 22-24 February, comes as the industry continues to suffer depressed sales levels for new helicopters and is dogged by ...
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Planet lap-top
The US Comsat Mobile Communications company has introduced a 2.7kg lap-top-sized personal satellite telephone, called the Planet 1, which can be used anywhere in the world, via the new Inmarsat 3 communications satellites, the first of which will be launched in March. Calls will cost about $3 per minute. ...
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GEC-Marconi
Lonnie Muir has been named vice-president for marketing and technical services at GEC-Marconi InFlight Systems (GMIS). Most recently vice-president at AT&T Wireless, he replaces Michael Rhode. Muir worked for GMIS before joining AT&T Wireless in 1993. Source: Flight International
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Light and easy
The new Bell 407 proves to be more than just an upgraded 206. Peter Gray/SINGAPORE Photography by Mark Wagner BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON introduced two new helicopters at Asian Aerospace '96 at Singapore - the intermediate-sized, twin-engined 430, with its advanced four-blade main rotor, and the manufacturer's ...
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European debutante
This year sees the start of production of the first true Eurocopter product for the civil market: the EC 135. Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Cutaway by Giuseppe Picarella ALL EUROCOPTER AIRCRAFT to date, apart from the military Tiger, have been either French, from Aerospatiale's stable, or German, of former ...
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Call Red
Air-ambulance work in Europe is in its infancy, but is already establishing its credibility. Tony Booth/LONDON IN 1989, THE UK'S West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) launched a project to provide a five-county area of the central UK with air-ambulance cover (the County Air Ambulance service). The idea began ...
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Honeywell predicts Pegasus boom
MORE THAN 700 Boeing 757/767s and McDonnell Douglas MD-90/MD-11s could be retrofitted with Honeywell's newly developed Pegasus flight-management system (FMS), according to the company. The Pegasus FMS has 25 times the throughput capacity and up to 16 times more memory than that of the existing systems and will ...