All Systems & interiors articles – Page 913
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Schweizer unveils Twin Condor for spy flights
Ramon Lopez/ELMIRA, NEW YORK SCHWEIZER AIRCRAFT hopes to cash in on a growing international market for low-cost long-distance surveillance aircraft such as the RU-38A Twin Condor, which the US aircraft maker revealed publicly for the first time on 20 July. The US Coast Guard, which ...
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CMC and ASI join for cabin systems
CANADIAN MARCONI (CMC) and Australia's ASI Technologies have joined forces to offer airline cabin-management and cabin-information systems. ASI's ACAMS II cabin-management system and CMC's CMA-3200 passenger visual-information system have been combined to form the CMA-6000 passenger video-services system. Pakistan International Airlines has awarded the team a contract to ...
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Collins windshear radar approved certificated
COLLINS COMMERCIAL Avionics, part of Rockwell International, says that its Forward Looking Wind-shear Weather Radar has received supplemental type certification from the US Federal Aviation Administration. Trials of the WXR-700X were completed using a Boeing 737-300. The radar warns of wind-shear conditions up to 90s ahead of the ...
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Sabena/Swissair tie-up gets EC approval
THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) has given its blessing to the alliance between Swissair and Belgian flag carrier Sabena. Under the deal, Swissair will take a 49.5% stake in Sabena by 2005. The EC says that it is "satisfied" about guarantees that Sabena will remain under European Union ...
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FAA calls for check on THY JT8Ds overhauls
THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration will issue an airworthiness directive (AD) calling for detailed inspection of Pratt & Whitney JT8D turbofan engines overhauled by Turk Hava Yollari (THY), an FAA-certificated aircraft and engine-maintenance shop in Turkey. The AD results from an investigation of the 8 June uncontained failure ...
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ATR 42-400 First Flight
The first flight of the latest version of the ATR 42, the -400, took place on 12 July. The aircraft flew for 3h 15min and, according to ATR, performed "flawlessly". The aircraft features up-rated Pratt & Whitney PW121A turboprops driving six-bladed Hamilton Standard propellers, and as a revised, acoustically treated ...
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Aer Lingus A330 launches new service
Aer Lingus put its fourth Airbus A330 into service on 13 July on a new transatlantic service linking Belfast in Northern Ireland with New York and Boston via Shannon. The aircraft, originally built for Air Inter, has been leased for seven years. The new service is being marketed as Vacation ...
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A320 Overhaul
Lufthansa Technik (LTAG) began overhauling Airbus A320 landing gears at its Hamburg, Germany site in July. Meanwhile, LTAG has acquired a complete Boeing 747-200 landing gear, in addition to the 747-400 gear already held in the company's inventory of rotable spares. Source: Flight International
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It is vital to invest in young pilots
Sir - I read with dismay in Flight International that most jobs advertised call for commanders, chief pilots, and captains who are in their fifties, while the UK Civil Aviation Administration has extended the age limit of these categories. It seems a strange irony that many of the ...
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JADC targets YS-X development
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE JAPAN AIRCRAFT Development (JADC) expects to launch full-scale development of its proposed 90- to 110-seat YS-X twinjet by the end of the 1996 fiscal year. According to JADC senior managing director Shinya Kobayakawa, work will need to begin by late 1996 or early 1997 ...
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Cutting edge of training
The Diamond Katana provides a low-cost alternative to other two-seat trainers. Paul Phelan/SYDNEY AN UNUSUAL, but highly fuel-efficient, lightweight powerplant, all-composite construction, and an airframe design which clearly reveals its sailplane lineage, are among the distinctive features which set the Diamond DV20 Katana aside from more orthodox two-seat ...
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FAA and airlines launch next-generation communications
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC THE US FEDERAL Aviation Administration has joined with industry to develop the Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN) offering rapid and reliable information exchange, including air-traffic-control instructions and engine-performance data, among pilots, controllers and airline operations worldwide. The deal was struck between the FAA and ...
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Lufthansa extends Airbus cowling life
LUFTHANSA TECHNIK claims to have developed a low-cost method of repairing composite parts of Airbus A300 and A310 engine cowlings which have been damaged by moisture and hot air from anti-icing ducts. Engineers at the company's Hamburg maintenance site repair damage using a bonding system, cure it at ...
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USA advances Loran C phase-out
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA THE USA HAS brought forward the date for phasing out the Loran C radio-navigation system from 2015 to 2000, a move strongly opposed by the general-aviation (GA) community. The US Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) is lobbying for the system to remain operational at least ...
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Shrunk 777 'depends on Asia-Pacific liberalisation'
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE INTRODUCTION OF the planned -100X "shrink" version of the Boeing 777 will depend on a much greater liberalisation of air rights in the Asia-Pacific region, including the negotiation of new bilateral and overflight agreements, says a senior Boeing executive. Boeing expects the 777-100X to ...
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747X studies go on as VLCT plans are frozen
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES BOEING IS CONTINUING studies of 747 stretch designs, despite the suspension of joint studies with the Airbus partners of a very large commercial transport (VLCT) on the basis of insufficient market potential. The company is concentrating on two design options - the largest able to ...
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Door falls from American Eagle ATR 72
INVESTIGATORS ARE examining a cabin door which fell from an American Eagle ATR 72 shortly after take-off from Chicago O'Hare International airport on 10 July. A flight attendant sitting in the jump seat beside the door was saved by a passenger who grabbed her arm. Other passengers then ...
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R-R solves RB.211-524H combustor problem
David Learmount/LONDON ROLLS-ROYCE HAS introduced modifications and additional inspection procedures to the RB.211-524H turbofan following an in-flight incident in which a core fairing just aft of the combustion chamber burned through. A UK Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) report of an incident involving a British Airways ...
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Survival techniques
The past few years have been tough, but fixed-base operators in the USA are optimistic about the future. Karen Walker/ATLANTA SOMETHING OF A revolution is happening in the fixed-base operator (FBO) industry, the highway-service system of general aviation (GA) in North America. Across the USA, ...
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Survival techniques
The past few years have been tough, but fixed-base operators in the USA are optimistic about the future. Karen Walker/ATLANTA SOMETHING OF A revolution is happening in the fixed-base operator (FBO) industry, the highway-service system of general aviation (GA) in North America. Across the USA, ...