All Systems & interiors articles – Page 92
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Oil price drop changes plan for Boeing winglet house
A running ticker keeps visitors to AviationPartnersBoeing's (APB) home page updated on the estimated gallons of jet fuel saved by the 18-year-old joint venture’s wingtip devices. Each minute adds another 10,000gal (38,000l) of jet fuel unburned, with the projected total climbing well over 5.87 billion gallons by early March.
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NewsLoose 787 cockpit seat spurs FAA replacement call
A Boeing 787 captain’s seat came loose during a landing rollout, prompting the US Federal Aviation Administration to propose requiring operators to replace both crew seats in the cockpit.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: How airlines can adapt to an 'appified' world
People today are connected – at home, on the go and even in flight. A recent study found that 25% of adults couldn't remember their phone having been out of earshot. Mobile applications like WhatsApp have more than a billion monthly active users. There are more than two billion photos ...
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Measuring airlines' competitiveness in cyberspace
The airline marketplace has been transformed forever by e-commerce as an increasing number of travellers use internet-based products and services to manage various aspects of their travel life cycle.
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Air Corsica picks Air France-KLM MRO for A320 support
Mediterranean operator Air Corsica has selected Air France-KLM’s maintenance arm to provide component support for Airbus single-aisle types.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Muddle remains in Boeing middle of the market
In 2003, Boeing's in-house magazine Frontiers made a bold claim about a new product category it for the first time dubbed the "middle of the market" or MoM, which the article defined with aircraft optimised with 180-250 seats and a 3,000-6,500nm range.
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Airbus touts its ‘Make In India’ credentials
The Airbus Group produced over $500 million worth of aero-structures, components, materials, and services in India during 2015.
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Opinion
OPINION: Why airframers opposed Honeywell's UTC merger move
Industry consolidation has many useful purposes. Combining two organisations enlarges the economic and intellectual pool of resources, allowing the merged company to accept more risk to compete and innovate. It reduces overlapping back-office functions, making the entire industry more efficient and focused on the most essential tasks: developing, making and ...
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PICTURE: First Mobile-built A321 emerges
Airbus has shown off the first A321 to be completed at the US final assembly line in Mobile.
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Airbus chief discusses China production strategy
Airbus will spare no effort to be the dominant player in China, with its president and CEO pledging a personal commitment to the manufacturer’ partnerships in the country.
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NewsGE finishes assembly of first GE9X test engine
GE Aviation has completed assembly of the first GE9X test engine at its Peebles, Ohio facility where it will shortly begin ground runs of the 100,000lb-thrust (445kN)-class powerplant for the Boeing 777X.
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ISTAT: Bombardier sales chief defends Air Canada CSeries deal
Bombardier vice-president of commercial operations Ross Mitchell vowed on 1 March that orders coming in the next 12 months for the CSeries aircraft family will lift any doubts about the future of the programme.
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ISTAT: Scope-clause status quo could benefit CRJ900 – Bombardier
A failure to obtain scope clause relief by US regional carriers could have the unintended effect of boosting sales prospects for the CRJ900 regional jet, predicts Bombardier vice-president of commercial operations Ross Mitchell.
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Honeywell drops UTC acquisition bid
Honeywell on 1 March withdrew a public and controversial bid to acquire rival aerospace engines and systems supplier United Technologies.
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HELI-EXPO: Lockheed-Sikorsky considers new commercial helicopters
Sikorsky is looking beyond the S-76D and S-92 to new commercial products, potentially clean-sheet designs in the medium or light classes or “significant upgrades” to existing designs.
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NewsNASA selects Lockheed Martin to design supersonic X-plane
NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to design a half-scale supersonic X-plane with boom-suppression technology in an effort to lift the international ban on flying faster than Mach 1.0 overland.
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NewsHELI-EXPO: Bell rules out future conventional military helicopter developments
Mitch Snyder, the chief executive of Bell Helicopter, does not imagine the company offering another clean-sheet helicopter type to the US military after completing delivery of the AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom programmes of record.
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Opinion
ISTAT: Leahy changes opinion on demand for new A350 stretch
Airbus chief operating officer for customers John Leahy now thinks a market exists for a 45-seat stretch of the A350-1000 after speaking to multiple airlines around the world.
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NewsVIDEO: Bell relentlessly pursuing 525 despite market troubles
Work on the Bell Helicopter 525 Relentless is accelerating at the company’s assembly plant in Amarillo, Texas, as the third flight-test vehicle (FTV) nears completion and the first two production-representative examples also begin to take shape.
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ISTAT: Economist predicts oil prices will rise
Oil prices are unlikely to remain at today’s very low rates, but they will not rebound to 2014 levels of over $100 per barrel in the near future, says Avitas economist Adam Pilarski, speaking on 29 February at the ISTAT Americas conference.