Systems & interiors – Page 847
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Brunei's FANS-1-capable 747SP enters service on Royal duties
The first Boeing 747 "Classic" to be upgraded for Future Air Navigation System-1 (FANS-1) capability, a 747SP operated by the Brunei royal family, is now in operation. The aircraft was upgraded by Lufthansa Technik, which installed a "hybrid" cockpit with five Honeywell electronic-flight-instrument-system displays. The 747SP is one of several ...
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Continental selects Honeywell/Trimble for avionics upgrade
CONTINENTAL Airlines is to upgrade its Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-10s with Honeywell/Trimble HT9100 flight-management/ global-positioning systems (FMS/GPS), with an option to retrofit its MDCMD-80s. United Airlines, meanwhile, has cancelled plans to upgrade its 727s with the FMS/GPS, after deciding to retire the aircraft - which ...
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BA faces unrest
British Airways faces the threat of strikes by two groups of workers who have been separately balloted on industrial action. The 6,000-strong British Airline Stewards and Stewardesses Association has voted for a strike over alleged lack of consultation on a pay deal already accepted by a rival union, Cabin Crew ...
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F-22 757 testbed arrives at Seattle
The Boeing 757 flying testbed for the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor has been delivered to Seattle, where the aircraft will be based. The Raptor will be fitted with the Northrop Grumman APG-77 phased-array radar later this year. It will also be fitted with a sensor wing on the crown of ...
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Price delays decision on AWACS upgrade
The NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Programme Management Agency (NAPMA) will give the green light to a mid-term upgrade of NATO's fleet of Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft by early July, if a cost discrepancy can be resolved in time. German sources close to the programme say ...
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Changing the differences
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW In common with all Soviet overhaul sites, Factory N402 at Moscow's Bykovo Airport had specific work allocated to it. Until the early 1990s, it was the overhaul centre for most of the world's ageing Ilyushin Il-18 turboprops. The Factory was also the only centre in the ...
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Alenia/GEC-Marconi merger nears
Julian Moxon/Paris Italy's Alenia Difensa and the UK's GEC-Marconi are preparing to present details of a joint merger study to their respective Governments. A decision on whether to approve the deal is expected from London and Rome by the end of the month. Prospects for a ...
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ANZ, Ansett and SIA create a new force in Asia-Pacific
Air New Zealand (ANZ), Ansett and Singapore Airlines (SIA) have agreed to form what could be the largest international airline alliance in the Asia-PaciÌc region. The move comes as ANZmoves closer to the Lufthansa/ United Airlines-led Star alliance, raising prospects of links to a wider global partnership. Unveiling the agreement ...
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Denmark develops touchscreen technique
A fully reconfigurable part-task trainer is being developed by Denmark's Riso National Laboratory and Danish company Avitraco. The multi-aircraft training environment (MATE) looks like an ordinary simulator, but the aircraft instruments and controls are all reproduced on flat "virtual-panel" touch-screen displays, giving a representative environment. The innovation, which ...
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Boeing/MDC: monopoly game?...
Sir - The Comment "Hands off" (Flight International, 21-27 May) serves only the narrow, although legitimate, commercial interests of Boeing/McDonnell Douglas (MDC). For that reason, your position is inappropriate to the extreme and reflects a severe lack of strategic foresight by the author. The commercial-aircraft manufacturing business, unlike ...
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Starring role
Ansett is being propelled on to the international stage, with its strategic partnership with ANZ and SIA Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE When Rod Eddington was approached to head Ansett, the former Cathay Pacific Airways managing director made a tie-up with Air New Zealand (ANZ) a prerequisite condition. After just ...
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The Taiwan connection
Since 1990, Aero Vodochody has been focusing its civil-aviation efforts on trying to push ahead with a single-turboprop utility-transport project known as the Aero Ae 270, now given the name Ibis. The programme has been through various revisions, and a full-size fuselage mock-up has often been seen at ...
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Work programme for a major overhaul
BECAUSE OF limited hangarage, most aviaremonts (overhaul centres) firstly strip down an aircraft outdoors before bringing it into a hangar. This involves: removing wings, engines and tailplane; check for damage/wear. A detailed inspection is undertaken and the work needed is listed and discussed with the operator: ...
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NATCO and BSC to move Cathay simulators
CATHAYPACIFIC Airways has selected Northwest Aerospace Training (NATCO) to move its simulators to Hong Kong's new Chek Lap Kok Airport. NATCO, a Northwest Airlines subsidiary, has teamed with Binghamton Simulator (BSC) to carry out the project. Planning began in June, and the simulators will be moved early in 1999. ...
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Pathfinder is poised for historic landing
NASA's ambitious plans for a series of Mars Surveyor landers and orbiters, leading to a sample return mission in 2005, depend upon a successful touchdown of the Mars Pathfinder at Ares Vallis on 4 July. The landing site is at the outflow at the bottom of a valley ...
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Senate grills the two Bobs
As theatre goes, it was in a class of its own. And as the curtain went down on a US Senate hearing into the US-UK open skies talks in early June, the prospect of progress seemed as remote as ever. The general consensus was that Robert Crandall and ...
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Airlines unite over Africa
Rising concerns over air safety in most of Africa have spurred several major European carriers to support a South Africa Airways' initiative that could see some countries boycotted if they do nothing to improve the parlous state of their air traffic control systems. In May SAA put forward ...
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BA places a no strike bet
British Airways' plan to reap £1 billion a year in efficiency savings by March 2000 could suffer a severe blow if two separate ballots of cabin crew and ground staff, the latter over the airline's plan to sell its catering operations, result in support for strike action. Both ...
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We win together
Profits and a healthy cash balance once seemed impossible goals for Continental Airlines. Having achieved them, chairman and chief executive officer Gordon Bethune has turned his attention to the fight for global market share. Interview by Richard Whitaker Working together worked! So says the banner headline on the front cover ...
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Friendly skies? Let's get honest
Blame it on the lettuce leaf liner. Just a few years ago, when airline CEOs across the US were nervously eyeing their costs per available seat mile, the challenge was to trim costs without upsetting the passenger. An easy throwaway was the limp piece of lettuce that lined the trays ...