Systems & interiors – Page 886
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Under oversight?
FIRST, THE FEDERAL Aviation Administration in the USA was the target: now it is the Civil Aviation Authority in the UK. Each has been accused of failing to maintain satisfactory oversight of airline maintenance operations. If they cannot satisfy the expectations of the travelling public and their legal representatives, are ...
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Boeing to review 777 cabin pressure after diversion
BOEING IS AGAIN reviewing the design of the 777 cabin-pressurisation system, following the diversion of a United Airlines (UAL) aircraft to Gander, Newfoundland, while being flown on a transatlantic flight. The 777 suffered "a loss of pressure" rather than a sudden depressurisation, says the airline, which adds that ...
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FAA approval
The US Federal Aviation Administration has certificated Interstate Electronics' IEC 9002 global-positioning system flight-management system, approving it for en route, terminal and non-precision approach navigation. The system is aimed mainly at the air-transport retrofit market as well as larger corporate aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Pressure drop
An America West Airbus A320 lost cabin pressure at 33,000ft (10,000m) shortly after take-off from Columbus, Ohio, en route to Newark, New Jersey, on 12 July. The crew made an emergency landing at Port Columbus International Airport. None of the 37 passengers and seven crew members were injured. ...
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Chinese trainers
Thomson Training & Simulation, with STS of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Xifei Simulator Factory of Xian, China, is to supply four cabin-crew trainers to China Southwest Airlines. The Boeing 757/Airbus A340 emergency-evacuation, 757 cabin-service and 737 and 757 door trainers will be delivered to Chengdu in late 1997. Source: ...
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United and MDC test cockpit weather link
UNITED AIRLINES and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) have begun flight tests of a system to display real-time weather information in the cockpit. A three-month in-service trial of a United MDC DC-10, equipped with the cockpit weather-information system (CWIN), is to begin following certification of the equipment. Tests are being ...
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Deja deja vu
THE JAPANESE AND US Governments are once again going to the edge in the latest round of bilateral-air-service negotiations by threatening each other with sanctions and counter-sanctions. The news has been greeted by industry observers, in Tokyo and Washington, with a collective cry of "here we go again". ...
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Air Malta outlines plans for Azzura Air
AIR MALTA has purchased two AI(R) Avro RJ85s to start its new Italian-based venture AzzuraAir. The airline expects to add a third aircraft to the order by the end of July (Flight International, 22-28 May). Joseph Tabone, the Air Malta chairman, says that he expects to launch AzzuraAir ...
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Test of faith
NO-ONE BENEFITS when accident-investigation agencies clash over the cause of an air crash. The arguments may be based on genuine grievances, but they only serve to deflect attention from the wider issues at stake. It has happened this week because the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has ...
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Hub crack is blamed for MD-88 fan failure
A FATIGUE crack in the fan hub is the likely cause of the uncontained failure of a Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 powering a Delta McDonnell Douglas MD-88. Two passengers were killed and four injured when the left-engine fan disintegrated, sending debris into the cabin during the take-off run of Flight ...
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The cabin challenge
Perceptions of new cabin dangers are emerging as old problems resurface. Paul Phelan/CAIRNS David Learmount/LONDON AIRLINE PASSENGERS ignore safety briefings because they believe that it is the cabin crew's responsibility to protect them, according to recent research. Professor Helen Muir, of Cranfield University in the UK, ...
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Equal rights
Paul Duffy/BOCA RATON, FLORIDA THE DEMAND FOR OLDER aircraft, particularly for freighters, is rising strongly because operators are beginning to realise that the economics of using older aircraft can result in considerable cost savings. According to Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC), world air cargo will continue ...
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It's the passengers who matter
Sir - The argument that "-the airline industry needs to bring public perceptions and expectations in line with reality" in your Comment, "Means to and end" (Flight International, 3-9 July), surely needs to be turned on its head. The airlines need to listen to what the customer wants and expects, ...
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Flying into the future
Communications, navigation and surveillance in European airspace will be substantially different in the next decade - but how different? Kieran Daly/LONDON AROUND THE WORLD, air-traffic-services (ATS) providers are coming to terms with how the advent of the future air-navigation system will affect their airspace. For dozens of nations, ...
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Messier deal
Kuwait Airways has selected Messier-Bugatti to overhaul the landing gear of its entire Airbus Industrie fleet from 1999, in a deal potentially worth Fr40 million ($7.8 million). The contract covers five A300-600s, four A310-300s, three A320s, and four A340s. Source: Flight International
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UNS-1 challenge
Canadian-based Innotech has installed dual Universal Avionics UNS-1B Plus flight-management systems on a Bombardier Canadair Challenger 601-3R. The systems replace standard Honeywell units and will interface with two Universal global-positioning-system GPS-1200 12-channel receivers. Source: Flight International
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Small business
IAI's Amos communications satellite is attracting customers from outside Israel. Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV THE SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH of the Amos 1 communications satellite on 16 May has proved to be the trigger for a major effort to turn Israel's space capability into a profitable business. Israel ...
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Out of the wilderness
The new chief executive of Air Niugini, Moses Maladina, is leading the national airline of Papua New Guinea towards privatisation. Paul Phelan/PORT MORESBY AIR NIUGINI'S new chief executive and former company secretary, 31-year-old lawyer Moses Maladina, faces daunting tasks in his work of grooming the airline ...
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Scientists work on software to help damaged aircraft land
Andrew Doyle/LONDON Aircraft, which suffer major equipment failures or explosions, could be landed safely using software developed jointly at NASA Ames Research Center and McDonnell Douglas (MDC). The new research envisages that in less than 1s a damaged aircraft's computers would be able to "relearn" ...
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Third EGNOS satellite considered
Max Kingsley-Jones andKieran Daly/LONDON THE PARTNERS responsible for developing the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS) now have leases for the first navigation transponders to be flown on two Inmarsat satellites, and are considering the need for the use of a third satellite. The EGNOS ...