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GPS retrofit
Rockwell's Collins Commercial Avionics is to supply its Multi-Mode Global Navigation Landing Unit for retrofit into Airbus A300 B2 and B4 fleets. Deliveries to Airbus will begin later this year, with certification expected early in 1997. Up to 100 aircraft will receive the Collins system, which is a combined global-positioning ...
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Digital gyro deal
Airbus Industrie has selected Honeywell's GG1320 digital ring-laser gyro as a replacement for analogue ring-laser gyros in its A319, A320, A321, A330 and A340 types. The GG1320 is scheduled to be certificated on the A320 as part of the US avionics manufacturer's air-data/inertial-reference system in December. It will then be ...
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Space links
Loral Space and Communications will introduce a space-based navigation and positioning service in 1998. The Loral Integrated Navigation and Communications Satellite Services (LINCSS) will use the company's 48-satellite Globalstar mobile telecommunications service and the global-positioning system (GPS) satellite network to provide an accuracy of a few millimetres, says the company, ...
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BT makes sure it's good to talk at show
Keeping the lines of communication open at Farnborough could only be described as a logistical nightmare for the BT team which maintains the show's telephone network. The scale of the task is such that BT begins its preparations for show week in April and will still have an engineering ...
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GPS option
Aero International (Regional) has chosen the Honeywell/Trimble HT1000 as standard option Global Navigation Satellite Sensor Navigation Management System on the ATR 42 and 72 regional airliners. Certification is expected in the first quarter of 1997, and the HT1000 will also be available for retrofit through a field service bulletin ...
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Technology experience pays off
ERA Technology comes to Farnborough with experience in tackling engineering projects for more than 30 different industries. The independent contract research and development organisation has its base in Surrey, Southern England. It addresses all areas of avionics, including advanced data transmission systems, software, video and packaging. Radar ...
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ADS system on display 'live' at show
Visitors to Farnborough can chart progress towards a global satellite monitoring system for aircraft at the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) stand (H3/F1). NATS is a leading player in the European consortium which is trialling Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ADS). The ADS system harnesses the power of satellite technology, ...
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Face the facts with...Michael Graff
Michael Graff is the newly appointed president of Bombardier Aerospace's business Aircraft division with responsibility for the global marketing of Canadair and Learjet aircraft and the fractional ownership programme. A graduate of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Graff has worked in London and the USA, with ...
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Satcom boost
Passenger demand will see Satcom installations on narrowbody aircraft grow substantially in the next several years, as global communications capability becomes an expectation, not just a convenience for business travellers, says Honeywell. The Honeywell/Racal satellite communications team has launched an upgrade of its multi-channel systems suited to narrowbody use. ...
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ValuJet on target with MD-95
US low-cost airline ValuJet, which has just re-gained its Federal Aviation Administration certification after an intensive scrutiny of its operating procedures, is expected to remain the launch customer for the McDonnell Douglas MD-95. McDonnell Douglas president and chief executive officer Harry Stonecipher says he expects deliveries to begin to ...
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Internet plays its spare part
Is there anything that can't be ordered over the Internet? If calling up pizza via the computer is just too easy, then why not shop for aircraft parts? Aviall of Dallas, Texas, is launching a parts order entry system on its home page. The system ...
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US trainer makes transatlantic debut
The Raytheon Aircraft Beech/Pilatus PC-9 MkII is making its debut appearance at Farnborough after a two-hop flight from the USA. The aircraft was fitted with two 230 litre (60 USgal) wing-mounted external fuel tanks for the journey. Confirmed earlier this year as the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System ...
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Light fantastic
Page Aerospace is turning the spotlight on several innovative products for the first time at Farnborough at Hall 4/H13. Among them are a digital controller, used by cabin crew to set cabin lighting at the touch of a button. The intensity, location and colour of the lighting can ...
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APU cleared
AlliedSignal's latest APU - the 131-9(B) for the next generation Boeing 737 - has received Technical Standard Order (TSO) authorisation from the FAA, a record 25 months after the programme began. Designed both to start and operate up to 39,000ft (11,900m), the 131-9(B) incorporates more than 50 design recommendations ...
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Alliances key to competitive edge
The concept of ‘global alliances' between airlines has become increasingly evident in the past three years, according to KPMG International Airline Group. This is one of the findings of a survey of 24 international airline CFOs. The report, Strategic Issues and Current Trends in the International Airline Industry, ...
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Webbed feat
Am-Safe has signed a ‘belting' deal to help improve passenger safety. Phoenix-based Am-Safe, a leading supplier of aviation seat belts and restraints, has purchased the assets of webbing maker Technical Textiles. The acquisition, announced at the Show, improved Am-Safe's capability to respond to a changing market requirements for ...
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Cost-cutters save more
As Lufthansa launches an interim cost-cutting campaign to offset a weak first half performance, Swissair aims to cut salaries by 5 per cent after agreeing a pay deal with its pilots. Lufthansa is looking to save DM190 million ($130 million) in the second half of 1996, following a ...
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Fans support spreads
The benefits of the Future Air Navigation System have been slow in coming, but now they are tantalisingly close to being realised and more countries are rallying to the cause.
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Asia's liberal minority
Aeropolitics The US is making headway with its open skies philosophy in Europe but the Asia-Pacific market is proving a tougher nut to crack. Tom Ballantyne looks at the differing regional attitudes to liberalisation with the outside world and then assesses progress on open skies locally. To Asia-Pacific's growth-hungry ...
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Starting over
The second wave of US new entrant airlines is proving more resilient than the first and some venture capitalists are now looking at Europe. Russell Winter offers a formula to make sure aspiring low-cost startups, especially in Europe, find financial backers with deep pockets.Many industry specialists continue to believe that ...