Systems & interiors – Page 904
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Express trial grinds to halt
After a year's trial of its innovative Lufthansa Express product, the German carrier has cherry-picked parts of the pilot scheme for a revamp of its domestic operation. A poor performance halted the extension of the pilot to the whole system as originally planned. The German flag carrier was ...
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USAir courts main rivals
As speculation rose to fever pitch over the possibility of USAir selling out to United Airlines or American Airlines, all participants concerned stressed one word to describe the current state of the deal: 'preliminary'. Whatever the outcome, sources at USAir stress the talks are a culmination of a ...
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Spacewalk challenge
The STS69 space-walk has paved the way for assembly of the international Space Station. Tim Furniss/LONDON A 6H 46MIN SPACE-WALK BY two astronauts on 16 September, during the STS69/Endeavour mission, has given NASA more confidence in the ability of crews to assemble the international Space ...
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International tactics
Taiwan's international carriers are engaged in a bitter battle for market share. Paul Lewis/TAIPEI COMPETITION IS heating up between Taiwan's two established international players, flag carrier China Airlines (CAL) and four-year-old Eva Airways. Ambitious fleet-expansion plans, the opening up of profitable trunk routes to Hong Kong and ...
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Enough is enough for falling economy- class standards
Sir - I congratulate Mr Bamberg on his letter about British Airways' expenditure on first-class improvements (Flight International, 11-17 October, P49). I frequently fly London-Sydney (in economy and business class). BA and Qantas offer poor long-haul economy class and the seats are no better than a London Hyde Park deck ...
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Indecision rules in Asia
China and South Korea must overcome major stumbling blocks if they are to realise their ambition of building a 100-seat aircraft. Paul Lewis/BEIJING TIME IS RUNNING out for two of Asia's aspiring aviation nations. One year after announcing ambitious plans to share the building of ...
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IR energy to be used for de-icing
AN AIRCRAFT DE-ICING system in which infra-red (IR) heaters are used instead of environmentally damaging glycol-based fluids is ready to become operational at airports at Rheinlander, Wisconsin, and Rochester, New York. A prototype, developed by Process Technologies of Cheektowaga, New York, has already been tested at Greater Buffalo ...
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Vienna is first choice for CEATS centre
Julian Moxon/PARIS AFTER TWO YEARS OF controversy, Vienna in Austria has been provisionally chosen as the location of the Central European Air Traffic Services System (CEATS). The decision follows the failure by the seven CEATS countries (Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia) ...
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Egypt selects Matra Marconi
MATRA MARCONI Space has been awarded a $158 million contract to build and launch Egypt's Nilesat direct-broadcast television satellite. The deal was clinched despite competition from Aerospatiale and Lockheed Martin. The contract with Egyptian Radio and Television Union provides for the supply of a telecommunications satellite in orbit, ...
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Austrian receives Fokker 70 amid revamp
IN TANDEM WITH TAKING DELIVERY of its first Fokker 70 regional jet (christened the X-Large Fokker-Jet), Austrian Airlines has introduced a revised corporate image. The new design, created by GGK Vienna and UK consultancy Davies & Baron, features Austrian Airlines titles in anthracite grey on the winter-white fuselage, preceded by ...
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747-X plans gather speed
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES MAJOR BOEING 747 operators have been called to Boeing's Seattle headquarters in mid-November for meetings on the proposed -500X and -600X stretched derivatives, as plans for the possible 1996 launch of the next-generation 747 gather pace. Those attending include British Airways, Cathay ...
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Exim Bank 'will finance Il-96s'
THE US EXPORT-Import (Exim) Bank was expected to announce on 20 October that it is prepared to help finance the purchase of Westernised Ilyushin Il-96s by Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines (ARIA). Russian economics minister Yevgeniy Yasin says, that Exim support for the $1 billion purchase of 20 Il-96M/Ts "...is ...
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Island of change
The growth of civil aviation in Taiwan has been phenomenal - and expansion looks like continuing. Brent Hannon/TAIPEI SINCE DEREGULATION in 1987, the growth of aviation inside Taiwan has been rapid. By historical coincidence, the opening of the skies came in the same year that the Taiwanese were ...
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MDC will hire more staff
McDONNELL Douglas (MDC) is immediately "ramping up its resources" as a result of the ValuJet order and will add up to 450 design and development staff by mid-1996, says MD-95 deputy programme manager, Jerry Callaghan. A further 1,500 assembly line jobs will also be created, starting in 1996 ...
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Heading goes in here in here
Sir - In the article "Raytheon's first" (Flight International, 4-10 October, P42), your writer comments that the Premier I is "not a Beech nor a Hawker" and quotes Roy Norris as saying that "...the cabin cross-section is...close to that of a Hawker 800". The very clear Hawker (or, ...
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Y-7 for Chinese Navy
Xian Aircraft (XAC) has converted two Y-7 turboprop transports into aircrew avionics trainers for China's naval air force. Modifications include, the installation of the new radar, displays and reconfigured cabin for training. Source: Flight International
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Taiwan's domestic airlines jockey for position
FORMOSA AIRLINES with 23 aircraft, has the largest fleet of Taiwan's domestic airlines. It has two Saab 340As, six Saab 340Bs, three Fokker 50s, seven Dornier 228s and two Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2 Islanders. Another Fokker 50 will be delivered in November. Two Fokker 100s will be delivered, one in December ...
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No need to jump the gun on JAR 65
Sir - Andreas Georgiades, president of Aircraft Engineers International, wrote on the Joint Aviation Authorities' (JAA) requirement JAR 65 (Flight International, 6-12 September, Letters, P43). I would like to point out that the views and facts in David Learmount's original article (Flight International, 26 July - 1 August) ...
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Expansion piece by peace
As peace settles in Lebanon, British Mediterranean Airways continues to carve out a niche service to Beirut - and beyond. Alan George/LONDON BRITISH MEDITERRANEAN Airways (BMA) managing director Des Hetherington sums up his airline's underlying philosophy by saying: "If it is better than our opposition and ...
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Ogling profits, not design
Sir - Good luck to Ogle Design ("Visions of splendour", Flight International, 13-19 September, P33). Whatever success it may achieve is likely to be pretty evanescent, given the greed of airlines and the penny-pinching attitude of so many passengers. Who can forget the fanfare which accompanied ...