All Systems & interiors articles – Page 895
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Romancing the UK, Air Jamaica fashion
RED CARPETS on the tarmac, on board fashion shows by cabin crew and Mumm's Cordon Rouge champagne in economy class, are the ploys, which the new Air Jamaica intends to use to woo the UK traveler, when the carrier re-introduces a London-Montego Bay-Kingston link on 30 March, after an absence ...
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Mesaba puts 328 and 340 on its shortlist
NORTHWEST AIRLINK carrier Mesaba Airlines has shortlisted the Dornier 328 and Saab 340 for an order worth almost $400 million to replace its fleet of 26 Fairchild Metro IIIs and 25 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-100s. It plans to replace its fleet between June and the fourth quarter of 1998. ...
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TWA will replaced L-1011 fleet with 757s
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES (TWA) is to acquire 20 Pratt & Whitney-powered 757-200s - ten purchased from Boeing and ten leased from International Lease Finance - to replace its 14 Lockheed L-1011s and some Boeing 727s. The carrier will also hushkit 28 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-9-30s, and is negotiating with MDC ...
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Infrastructure
Winner: Airways Corporation of new Zealand Location: Wellington, New Zealand Achievement: Implementing the first satellite-based oceanic traffic control system, opening up the use of Future Air Navigation Systems in the Pacific. Airways Corporation of new Zealand has become the first air-traffic-control organisation to install a satellite-based oceanic ...
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Helicopters
Winner: Eurocopter Location: Paris, France Achievement: Application of advanced noise-reduction technologies throughout the design of the low-noise EC 135 helicopter THE AWARDS JUDGES decided that two entries in this year's Helicopters category stood out "head and shoulders" above the others. Those were from Eurocopter for ...
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'Freeze JAA rule-making', says IFALPA
THE EUROPEAN JOINT Aviation Authorities (JAA) should be barred from developing or adopting new aviation regulations (JARs) until its status as a European rule-making body has been established, says the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations (IFALPA). The objection follows a European Commission (EC) Transport Directorate working paper ...
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Systems & components
Winner: Messier-Bugatti Location: Velizy, France Achievement: Head-up display for first 737 Category IIIB certification SEXTANT AVIONIQUE'S head-up flight-display system (HFDS) allowed L'A‚ropostale to become the world's first carrier to gain certification for Category IIIB operation of Boeing 737-300s, in September 1995. The judges ...
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MDC improves China training
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA AIRCRAFT manufacturers are moving to upgrade training for Chinese airlines. McDonnell Douglas (MDC) has ordered a Vital ChromaView visual-system from FlightSafety International to upgrade an MD-82 simulator operated by China Northern Airlines. In January, MDC ordered a ChromaView visual to upgrade a China Eastern MD-82 simulator. ...
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Technology challenge
Making it easy is not part of the latest Branson challenge. Andrew Doyle/LONDON WHEN VIRGIN AIRWAYS chairman Richard Branson and balloon manufacturer Per Lind- strand launch their attempt to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon, it will be more than a test of human endurance. The performance of ...
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Russians sign avionics deal
AVIACOR, THE SAMARA-based manufacturer of the Tupolev Tu-154M, has formed a strategic alliance with Honeywell, covering the use of the US avionics-maker's equipment on the Russian manufacturer's aircraft. The agreement, which was signed at Asian Aerospace '96, specifies potential programmes for the installation of Honeywell's integrated avionics, flight-management ...
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DASA wants Airbus to scale down large-aircraft plans
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE partner Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) wants the consortium to drop its A3XX 500- to 650-plus-passenger aircraft study in favour of a 400- to 550-seat aircraft to rival new stretched variants of the Boeing 747 now under study. The DASA move comes in the wake of recent bruising ...
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Air Transport
Winner: Bombardier Regional Aircraft Location: Ontario, Canada Achievement: Helping carriers to exploit the benefits of open skies, with new low-cost, direct air services using the 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet. FROM THE OUTSET, Bombardier designed its 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet to help airlines open up new ...
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GEC-Marconi aims to quieten the Hercules
WHATEVER THE virtues of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, cabin quietness is not one of them. Now GEC-Marconi Avionics plans to do something about it. The UK company began trials of an active noise-control system on a US Air National Guard C-130H late in 1995. Active noise ...
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Aerospace mergers begin to reshape US industry ranking
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON WITH YEAR-END results now in for most of the major US aerospace groups, the effect of mergers and acquisitions are beginning to show through in the industry rankings. Lockheed Martin, as predicted, has pushed ahead of strike-hit Boeing in the world league table, and ...
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MDC reveals its long-term plan for MD-11 plan
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in the final stages of defining two new versions of the MD-11, which will enable the company to compete head-to-head with Airbus and Boeing in the Boeing 747-100/200 replacement market and the emerging extra-long-range market. "We got to the point that we had to ...
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Singapore pushes West to support AE-100
SINGAPORE WANTS prospective Western partners to commit to taking a greater stake in the development, production and marketing of China's planned AE-100 regional jet. Singapore Technologies (ST) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) to take a 10% share in the programme. ...
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Twenty years young
The Concorde is set to remain in airline service for up to another 20 years. Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE BRITISH AEROSPACE/Aerospatiale Concorde is a unique airliner in many ways, not least because it has been in revenue service for two decades and there is still no new aircraft ...
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Talk this way
A Swedish-led technology could provide a key element of the Future Air Navigation System. Kieran Daly/LONDON THE GLOBAL-NAVIGATION satellite-system-synchronised, self-organising, time-division, multiple-access (STDMA) data- link really needs a much better name. It is one thing for the dedicated souls serving on the International Civil Aviation ...
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Lap-top-planet
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. The Japanese NEC-built, $3,000 receiver will enable calls ...
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In-trail-climb testing inadequate
Sir - In the article "New members join in-trail-climb club" (Flight International, 6-12 December, 1995, P16), Ken Peppard of the US Federal Aviation Administration is quoted as saying that "...pilots, controller and ARINC operators feel comfortable with the procedure". The US Airline Pilots' Association (ALPA) believes this to be an ...