Systems & interiors – Page 928
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Insurers face record claims bill
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE GROWING COST of passenger-liability claims has begun to raise alarm in insurance markets, following early predictions that 1994 was a record year for airline losses. The total bill for major hull and liability losses on Western-built passenger jets leapt to more than $1.5 ...
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Creditors baulk at TWA proposals for recovery
TRANS WORLD Airlines (TWA) has run into fierce opposition from some creditors to its restructuring plan, which would see some of the carrier's $1.8 billion debt converted to equity. TWA hopes to reduce its debt by $500-600 million by offering creditors an increased stake in the airline. A ...
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Alitalia pilots to strike over wages
ALITALIA PILOTS planned a . strike on 18 January, in an attempt to apply further pressure on the carrier's management to concede pay increases in return for productivity improvements. The strike threat comes amid talks between Alitalia and its two pilots' unions over the need for major cost-savings ...
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Croatia seeks code-share as long-haul plan is deferred
Andrzej Jeziorski/ZAGREB CROATIA AIRLINES has shelved plans to buy long-haul aircraft this year and is instead seeking a code-sharing partnership with a US airline. According to senior vice-president Kresimir Magdic, the airline had intended this year to purchase either an Airbus A340 or an extended-range Boeing ...
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Avionics sensors certificated
ROCKWELL-Collins Series 900 avionics sensors have been certificated on the Boeing 747-400. Approval on the Boeing 777 is scheduled for April 1995 and certification efforts are under way on the 757 and 767, Collins says. The Series 900 product line covers VHF communication and navigation, high frequency and ...
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Lessons from the cockpit
Airbus has learned a lot about the "glass cockpit", but there is much more to be gleaned. David Learmount/LONDON In little more than a decade, a breathtaking change has taken place in airliner-cockpit design, and in flight management and control technology, but some pilots believe ...
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Advanced Citations win foreign orders
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA KOREAN AIRLINES has ordered four Cessna Citation Ultra light business-jets for use as flight crew trainers. The aircraft will be modified to accommodate a third crew-station aft of the cockpit. The forward bulkhead will be removed, but six cabin seats will be retained, enabling the ...
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China's DFH struggles into GEO
CHINA'S FIRST three-axis-stabilised, advanced, indigenous, 24 C-band communications satellite, the DFH 3, has finally reached geostationary orbit (GEO). A navigation malfunction had left it stranded in a lower transfer orbit ever since its launch aboard a Long March 3A on 30 November (Flight International, 7-13 December, 1994). ...
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BE Aerospace posts third-quarter loss
BE AEROSPACE (BEA) sank to a loss in its third quarter, after writing off nearly $24 million against in-flight entertainment products outdated through the success of the group's MDDS interactive systems. The group had warned earlier that a charge would be made, but had not revealed the scale. ...
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The numbers game
For the first time in decades, there is an argument over which company sold the most new airliners in 1994. At headline level the dispute is, of course, irrelevant in a business whose time-scales are so long. Underneath, however, the fact that there is an argument at all, suggests that ...
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Duty times are no threat
Sir - In "Duty bound" (Flight International, 14-20 December, 1994, P32) you say that "...IFALPA [International Federation of Airline Pilots' Associations] is convinced that the proposed European rules are dangerous". It is a nonsense for pilot unions to pretend to be prepared to leave decisions to the Aeromedical ...
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A question of scale
Will big also be beautiful, as consolidation creates American aerospace giants? Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Revolutions, it seems, can often start from surprisingly low-key beginnings. In the case of the Lockheed Martin merger, it began with a telephone call. In March 1994, Lockheed chairman Dan Tellep rang ...
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Smoother operations
NASA's Kennedy Space Center Shuttle landing runway has been modified to reduce launch delays Tim Furniss/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER Space Shuttle launch delays may be reduced by more than 50% because of extensive modifications to the 4,570m (15,000ft)-long grooved-concrete runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) ...
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Canadian safety chiefs query airline checks
Jim Bagnall/OTTAWA CANADA'S Transportation Safety Board has criticised Transport Canada for failing to ensure that safety deficiencies it had uncovered during routine airline audits were actually fixed. In a report to transport minister, Doug Young, the Board notes that it has investigated 19 aircraft accidents since 1984, ...
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Venom's vital parts
GEC and Bell have upgraded the AH-1W SuperCobra and renamed it the Venom for the British Army's attack-helicopter competition. Peter Gray/ROCHESTER I "flew" the GEC-Marconi Avionics Venom simulator at the company's plant at Rochester, in the UK. This fixed-base device has two cockpits set up ...
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Heathrow hopes for 80 million passengers
LONDON HEATHROW airport is gearing up for a 60% passenger-traffic increase as its owner BAA fires the first shots in the political war for clearance to build a fifth terminal (T5). The public inquiry into the case for T5 starts in May. If BAA's case is defeated, ...
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JAST Avionics Agreement
The US Department of Defense has selected a team, led by Texas Instruments, to begin development of advanced avionics for the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) programme. Texas Instruments, along with Honeywell, Litton Amecom and TRW, received $2.5 million to analyse and define avionics systems for future JAST vehicles. The ...
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Suppliers
The MD-90 has received US certification from the Federal Aviation Administration. Rolls-Royce has agreed to buy Allison Engine Company for $525 million. Boeing will hold current prices on spares until mid-1996. Airbus Industrie has frozen the price of spare parts at 1994 prices for 1995 orders. ...