Systems & interiors – Page 890
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ARINC launches its 'FANS for classics'
Kieran Daly/SINGAPORE A MAJOR US operator is the launch customer for an ambitious programme designed by US avionics and communications specialist ARINC to make "classic" long-haul aircraft compatible with the air-traffic system of the future. ARINC is offering to develop solutions for any classics which operators ...
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Axe hangs over new engines for Il-86
GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) and Snecma are trying to patch together a $750 million financial package in a final attempt to rescue the proposed plan to re-engine Ilyushin Il-86 widebodies with a variant of the CFM56. The project has been under discussion since the early 1990s, but financing has ...
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Airbus revises A340 development
Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE Andrew Doyle/VANCOUVER AIRLINES ARE PUSHING Airbus to study a 15,700km (8,500nm)-range derivative of the A340, combining the fuselage of the -300 with the wing and engines of the -600 "Super Stretch", as an alternative to the smaller, 14,800km- range, A340-8000. At a recent meeting ...
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Where you train is not always where you end up flying
Sir - As a licensed US Federal Aviation Administration commercial pilot, I support the plea for international standards for flight training in the article "Unique Internationalism" (Flight International, 8-14 May, P3). There are some points which need taking up, however. Firstly, there is the argument that a UK ...
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Jeppesen to standardise European charts
JEPPESEN HAS enhanced its visual-flight-rules/global-positioning-system navigation charts for six European countries, as part of an initiative to create standard formats across the region and help flight planning. Charts for Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland have been enhanced in the run-up to changes in border-crossing regulations. ...
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Why not use the safer Halon gas?
Sir - During the 1980s, I campaigned (unsuccessfully) for the withdrawal of highly toxic Halon 1211 portable extinguishers from flightdecks and cabins, suggesting their replacement by five-times-safer Halon 1301. My fear was - and remains - that 1211, in the confined space of a flightdeck, could cause the ...
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Ametek introduces monitor to keep track of regional-turboprop balances
AMETEK AEROSPACE Products has introduced a system to give fast, accurate propeller balancing, allowing regional-turboprop operators to keep down damaging vibration levels throughout an aircraft's life. The Balance Monitoring System automatically stores vibration data in flight. These data are then downloaded to a ground-based lap-top computer which calculates ...
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Wilcox makes formal WAAS protest to FAA
WILCOX ELECTRIC has issued a formal protest against the award of the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) contract to Hughes Aircraft, its former subcontractor on the $475 million programme. Wilcox says that the protest follows discovery that the US Federal Aviation Administration "-had given Hughes more time to ...
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More than illusion
Graham Warwick/ORLANDO THINK OF ORLANDO, Florida, and you are likely to think of Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and Sea World. Managers of Orlando International Airport would like you to think also of a vibrant community of young, affluent, people, working not only in tourism, but also in ...
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Working to capacity
To increase airport capacity, NASA is working to get aircraft off the runway and to the terminal faster. Graham Warwick/ATLANTA INCREASES IN airspace capacity promised by new air-traffic-management technologies such as Free Flight will challenge airports' ability to cope unless control of aircraft on the ground is similarly ...
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ValuJet CVR confirms fire-in-cabin theory
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC The existence of an intense fire in the cabin has now been confirmed by the cockpit-voice recorder (CVR) as being a likely cause of the ValuJet McDonnell Douglas DC-9 accident in Florida on 11 May. Flight- and cabin-crew exchanges indicate that the fire ...
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AlliedSignal to offer Iridium service
ALLIEDSIGNAL IS TO provide an aeronautical-telecommunications service using the Iridium satellite-based mobile-telephone system. The service is due to be available early in 1999 and is expected to undercut Inmarsat-based satellite-communications costs, rivalling those of terrestrial flight-telephone systems. The tie-up with AlliedSignal is revealed in the Flight InternationaI newsletter, ...
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AEA slams European ATC performance
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS KARL-HEINZ Neumeister, secretary-general of the Association of European Airlines (AEA) has led an attack on Europe's "increasing" flight delays, "lousy" air-traffic control (ATC) and "scandalous" route charges. He complains that European airlines are being saddled with unnecessary costs, putting them at a disadvantage ...
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Japan's carriers make gains
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Kevin O'Toole/LONDON GROWING international traffic has helped Japan Airlines (JAL) return to profitability for the first time in five years and has further strengthened the recovery at All Nippon Airways (ANA) JAL bounced back into the black for the first time since 1990, with ...
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Airline news
Air Canada is reducing its shareholding in Continental Airlines to 10 per cent, while retaining 4 per cent voting power, and plans to sell its remaining holding by early 1997. Continental will start a weekly New York/Newark-Dusseldorf flight in July. United Airlines will launch nonstop Chicago-Hong Kong services ...
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JAL's internet
Japan Airlines will introduce ticketless travel in the domestic market this month, including sales through travel agents. From July, JAL will become the first Asian carrier to offer domestic bookings via the Internet. Source: Airline Business
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BA savours American pie
The impending alliance between American Airlines and British Airways confirms that US international aviation policy over the last two years has had a dramatic impact on the global airline industry. BA and American officials were preparing the accord at presstime. Sources say that a two-year discussion finally yielded ...
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Marketing a package
Abu Dhabi, host city for Routes '97, has its own unique approach to airport marketing. Mark Blacklock reportsShortly before landing at Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, Britannia Airways screens a video about the city, its airport and the duty free shopping complex. Provided free of charge by ...
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Immune deficiency syndromes
US transportation officials have long been quietly offering antitrust immunity as a gift for opening up international markets to their airlines. Now immunity is being sought on a grand scale, but the Department of Justice is wary. Mead Jennings reports.The question won't be asked officially for another year, but Elliott ...
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Mirror images
Japan's two largest carriers are eyeing each other's traditional markets as they struggle to rectify the advantages enjoyed by their US rivals and the disadvantages of Japanese airport congestion. Successful cost-cutting remains the key. Mark Odell reports on their progress from Tokyo and then scrutinises domestic deregulation Japanese-style. Put the ...