Systems & interiors – Page 898
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Off target
1995's world airline safety performance shows that targets are not being met. David Learmount/LONDON FIGURES FOR 1995 confirm that numbers for world airline fatal accidents are showing an upward trend. The 1995 fatal-accident total (57) and the number of resulting fatalities (1,215) are significantly above the annual ...
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Delta used UK slots in disguise
Sir - In reply to the letter "US carriers should think again" (Flight International, 3-9 January, P39), Mr Howard is mistaken in thinking that Delta ever had slots at London Heathrow. What he recalls seeing were McDonnell Douglas DC-8-33s painted in Delta Air Lines' colours, beginning in 1969, which were ...
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DASA steps up work on Seamos demonstrator
DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) is pushing ahead with development of its unmanned Seamos sea-reconnaissance and location-system technology demonstrator, following a contract from the German Office of Defence Technology and Procurement. Dornier, part of DASA, built the demonstrator to prove the concept of automatic takeoffs and landings from seaborne platforms, ...
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Delta warns on CRS charges
DELTA AIRLINES has warned computer-reservation-system (CRS) operators to cut CRS distribution charges to air carriers or face losing the business to emerging alternative electronic and ticketing systems. "Continued rate increases will only encourage Delta and other carriers to implement practices designed to minimise or eliminate the distribution of ...
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Filling the gap
THE 1995 BUSINESS FIGURES for the airliner manufacturers tell many stories. Boeing regained market leadership with an outstanding year, selling 346 aircraft worth some $31.2 billion. Airbus Industrie, which outsold Boeing in 1994, dropped back into second place in 1995, but delivered more aircraft than ever, giving it record revenues. ...
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Chip off the new block
NASA's New Millennium programme will create new technologies for future missions. Tim Furniss/WASHINGTON DC NASA SAYS THAT ITS NEW WAY of doing things is "smaller, faster, better, cheaper". The US space agency's $100 million-a-year "New Millenium" programme is directed especially at achieving the "smaller and ...
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Sea change
Japan may be about to wave goodbye to convention as it tackles the problem of airport congestion. Michael Fitzpatrick/TOKYO USER-FRIENDLY is not a term you could use to describe New Tokyo International Airport at Narita. It is a Y21,650 ($210) taxi ride away from Tokyo, ...
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No alternative to BALPA/BA deal
Sir - Ivor Bennett has got the wrong end of the stick in his letter "Inconsistency in BALPA policy" (Flight International, Letters, 22-28 November 1995, P68). The facts are as follows. Early in 1995, British Airways proposed the introduction of "cadet cruise-only" pilots, on to the Boeing 747-400 ...
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Midwest expansion
Midwest Express Airlines, has leased two ex-Garuda McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32s from Australian Aircraft Sales, taking its fleet to 21 - including 19 DC-9s. The aircraft will enter service in April and May 1996 after overhaul, interior reconfiguration and Stage 3 hushkitting. Source: Flight International
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Far East success
The Bedek division of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), has secured two contracts, as the first results of a marketing drive in Asia. An Air India Boeing 747-200 is already undergoing a D-check and repyloning at Bedek's Ben-Gurion International Airport site in Tel Aviv. A China Northern airline McDonnell Douglas MD-82 ...
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Air safety takes a dive
David Learmount/LONDON THE AMERICAN Airlines Boeing 757 crash in Colombia on 20 December contributed to a plunge in world airline-safety figures during the last six months of 1995, following the most promising first half-year period in history. Provisional figures show that there were just over 1,200 deaths in ...
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Permali supplies DC-8 cabin interior
PERMALI GLOUCESTER HAS supplied a fireproof cabin interior for an African International Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-8-54F freighter. The cabin walls are made from a woven-glass composite material, called WFT/22, which was chosen for its self-extinguishing, low-smoke, low-toxicity characteristics. WFT/22 is a phenolic-based material, which is water-resistant and has a high ...
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SIA orders ATEC test system for use on 777s and A340s
Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE AEROSPATIALE HAS sold one of its ATEC Series 6 automated test systems to Singapore Airlines (SIA) for use on the carrier's Boeing 777s and Airbus A340s. The French company says that it expects the airline to order more "...once its 777 budget is in place". ...
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Banned aid?
THE EUROPEAN Commission has set some far-reaching policies and made some bold decisions in its time. Some of them have been good; some of them bad. Few have been as misguided as its latest decision over support for Iberia Airlines (Flight International, 20 December, 1995 - 2 January, P5). That ...
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American 757 crashes
An American Airlines Boeing 757, which left Miami for Cali, Colombia on 20 December, crashed into mountains at night, killing all but four of the 167 people on board. The aircraft was on its descent into Cali from the north, which requires a step-letdown procedure using VHF-omni-range/distance-measuring-equipment navigation beacons. The ...
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Cathay Pacific is warned on future
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE A MAJOR CHINESE shareholder in Cathay Pacific Airways has issued a blunt warning to the Hong Kong-based carrier that it faces competition after the colony is handed over to China in 1997. In an interview with Hong Kong's main English language newspaper, the ...
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Executive Airlines to fit GPS to ATRs
PUERTO RICO-based American Eagle carrier Executive Airlines is equipping its ten ATR 42s and 72s with global-positioning systems (GPS) to allow cost-saving direct routing. Executive has selected Universal Avionics' UNS-1M GPS-based navigation-management system for its aircraft. The airline's decision follows a six-month proof-of-concept programme, which demonstrated ...
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Flying backwards
A return-to-launch-site abort would test the Space Shuttle to its limits. Tim Furniss/WASHINGTON DC BRYAN O'CONNOR, FORMER Space Shuttle commander and now director of the Shuttle programme at NASA's headquarters says, "To a pilot, it's a crazy bunch of attitudes." He is describing the procedure for a ...
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Airport Systems steers to Indonesian joint venture
AIRPORT SYSTEMS International (ASI) plans to establish a joint venture in Indonesia to produce navigation aids (navaids) and landing systems. The Kansas-based company has reached agreement with Indonesia's PT LEN and PT Elektrindo Nusantara, to form the Asian country's first navaids manufacturer. ASI projects that the ...
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Airline navigation
Kieran Daly/Editor Air Navigation International THE OPERATOR-community will see only a little more of the future air-navigation system (FANS) turn to reality during 1996, but, across the globe, a vast amount of development work will take place. That has to happen if the numerous target dates ...