Systems & interiors – Page 818
-
News
Airtours anticipates summer with 747
Airtours International has boosted its summer 1998 season charter capacity with the damp lease of a Boeing 747-200 from Air New Zealand (ANZ) for operation on transatlantic flights from Belfast, Cardiff and Manchester. The 416-seat 747, which is being crewed by ANZ pilots and Airtours cabin staff, is being flown ...
-
News
AlliedSignal expands EGPWS applications
AlliedSignal Aerospace is developing a version of its enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) to fit corporate aircraft. It is responding to proposed US Federal Aviation Administration regulations requiring installation of terrain avoidance and warning systems in all aircraft with six or more seats . The two air transport ...
-
News
US plan to 'sabotage' European ADS-B fails
An alleged US attempt to sabotage a European-backed technology for the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) has collapsed in the face of international opposition. Delegates to an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) panel considering the matter voted to stick with their original plan for the development of a Swedish-developed ...
-
News
Routes
-Alaska Airlines is to offer a twice-weekly roundtrip service from Los Angeles to La Paz in Mexico from 25 October, using a Boeing MD-80 originating in Seattle. -Aero Lloyd will operate a weekly service from Alicante, Spain to Linz, Austria, from June. -Braathens has started a three times daily service ...
-
News
Fool's gold ?
Is it right to assume, in the wake of Continental Express' order for 37-seat Embraer RJ-135s to operate alongside its 50-seat ERJ-145s, that the regional turboprop is dead and that, to survive, particularly in North America, all regional airlines must move to jet-power even for their smallest needs? Or ...
-
News
Counting on Columbus
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Despite recent fears of delays in the assembly of the International Space Station (ISS), Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa)is still working on the assumption that its key contribution - the Columbus Orbital Facility (COF) - will be launched on time, or perhaps earlier than expected. Russia is running ...
-
News
Survival of the fastest ?
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Airline industry analysts are "unabashedly bullish" over the future of regional jet aircraft, which are expected to produce fundamental changes in the airline business over the next five years. Merrill Lynch's Byron Callan says that 32- to 70-seat regional jets comprise "the most rapidly growing market segment" ...
-
News
Airborne 767 freighter set for certification
Flight Structures (FSI) and Timco expect the Boeing 767-200 cargo modification developed for Airborne Express to receive its supplemental type certificate (STC) from the US Federal Aviation Administration within the next two months. According to Michael Hugill, president of Seattle-based FSI, the modification of the first 767, one of ...
-
News
Gemini in talks with Boeing for MD-11s
Gemini Air Cargo is talking to Boeing about a potential deal to acquire new MD-11 freighters, but is also examining possible secondhand aircraft acquisitions as it awaits a decision from the manufacturer on the tri-jet's production future. The Washington Dulles-based supplemental cargo carrier, which has just introduced its eighth ...
-
News
China gears up for more Iridiums
China Great Wall Industry is to launch a further eight pairs of Motorola Iridium mobile communications satellites aboard Long March 2C/SD boosters. The move will allow Motorola to maintain a fleet of six in-orbit spares as replacements for operational craft in the 66-satellite operational system. The third launch of ...
-
News
Light flier
Peter Gray/SINGAPORE With so many other light helicopters on the market, it was going to be interesting to evaluate the five-seat EC120B Colibri, the new multipurpose machine from Eurocopter and its Chinese and Singaporean partners. The aim of my evaluation, which follows Flight International's technical description, was to see if ...
-
News
Air Maroc first
Honeywell/Trimble has been awarded a supplementary type certificate for its HT9100 navigation management system for the Boeing 737 "classic" by the US Federal Aviation Administration. A Royal Air Maroc 737-200 was used for the certification of the system, which will allow such aircraft to operate using basic area navigation, allowing ...
-
News
Eurocontrol alters B-RNAV date following poor compliance level
Emma Kelly/LONDON Eurocontrol has set a final deadline of 1 August, 1998, for operators in European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) airspace to meet basic area navigation (B-RNAV) requirements following a "very disappointing" level of compliance achieved for the 23 April deadline. Under the April schedule, the carriage of ...
-
News
Pilots fear global alliances may affect air safety in the future
Harry Hopkins/MONTREAL Global airline alliances could threaten safety in the future by eclipsing the control of national aviation authorities, the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations (IFALPA) agreed at its 23-28 April annual conference in Montreal, Canada. The implication is that the influence of operators' certificates could be ...
-
News
Lufthansa fights for Frankfurt
Kevin O'Toole/FRANKFURT Lufthansa chairman Jürgen Weber has threatened to pursue the European Commission through the courts if competition commissioner Karel Van Miert goes ahead with demands for the surrender of slots at Frankfurt as the price for the airline's transatlantic alliance. Weber's warning follows reports coming out of Brussels suggesting ...
-
News
Refinements delay first flight of Century Jet
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Century Aerospace has pushed back first flight, certification and delivery of its single-turbofan Century Jet to incorporate cabin design changes and refinements which have been recommended by the company's customer advisory committee. The first flight of the Century Jet, initially planned for July 1999, has been ...
-
News
NASA and FAA get going on post-AGATE goals
Dave Higdon/HOUSTON NASA and the US Federal Aviation Administration have begun studying the next step in general aviation revitalisation, even before programmes to develop new aircraft and engine technologies have reached fruition. It already appears that infrastructure will be the focus of the next NASA/FAA effort after the ...
-
News
Fractional plan for FBOs starts
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Burgeoning interest in fractional ownership has prompted a US company to launch a franchise programme offering fixed-base operators (FBOs) access to a standardised scheme that will be promoted nationally. Skyshare International has used its experience setting up a local shared-ownership programme in Little Rock, Arkansas, ...
-
News
FAA considers Y2K legislation
The US Federal Aviation Administration is studying measures to ensure that aircraft flying in US skies are fully prepared for the year 2000 (Y2K) computer bug. The FAA Y2K Program Office is examining its responsibilities in the areas of aircraft regulation and certification, having concentrated to date on the air ...
-
News
Across the spectrum
Dave Higdon/LAKELAND, FLORIDA Sport aviation's annual spring fling, the US Experimental Aircraft Association's Sun 'n' Fun Fly-In, attracted more than half a million aficionados who witnessed, among other things, the relaunch of the Wing Derringer and unveiling of a "flying motor home", the Private Explorer. Rain and humidity did little ...