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Association broadcasts live TV plan
The World Airline Entertainment Association's (WAEA) technical committee will turn its attentions to live broadcast satellite service once it completes the specification for the in-flight use of digital versatile disk (DVD) next month. With several airlines interested in offering passengers live television services, the WAEA is keen to resolve ...
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Malaysia launches audio/video on demand, plans e-mail service
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) launched audio- and video-on-demand (A/VOD) capability on one of its Boeing 777s this month. It is the first stage of a programme that will see the airline's entire 777 and Boeing 747-400 fleet equipped with the latest in-flight entertainment (IFE) feature. A/VOD, which allows passengers to ...
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Matsushita prepares for deliveries of System 3000
In-flight entertainment (IFE) system supplier Matsushita will be ready to deliver its new interactive IFE hardware - the System 3000 - early next year. The first phase of the fully interactive system designed for widebody aircraft will be available in the first quarter, with full system functionality in the ...
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First AS355N goes to Massachusetts
McAlpine Helicopters has shipped the first of two Eurocopter AS355N helicopters to American Eurocopter in Texas for delivery to the US Massachusetts State Police. The helicopter, which was completed at McAlpine's centre at Oxford Airport, UK, features police mission equipment, including Inframetric's MK3 sensor turret. The Turboméca Arrius-powered AS355N is ...
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Smart card paves way for trouble-free travel
Passengers holding a multifunction smart card which operates as a passport, visa, and biometric identity tag "could enjoy a truly hassle-free experience from check-in to final clearance at destination", predicts International Air Transport Association (IATA) director general Pierre Jeanniot, speaking at the Aerovision 2000 Symposium in Vancouver, Canada. Effective ...
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Marketplace
Fairchild Aerospace has delivered the first two 328JETs to launch customer Skyway Airlines. Skyway has five aircraft on firm order with 10 options. It will put the 32-seat regional jet into revenue service following completion of pilot training in San Antonio, Texas. Continental Airlines has revised its fleet retirement plan, ...
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FAA orders insulation to be replaced on 700 aircraft
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Thermal insulation on all McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and Boeing MD-80s, MD-90s and MD-11s must be replaced within four years, the US Federal Aviation Administration has ordered. The regulation has been under consideration for more than a year, but has become mandatory just as the Transportation ...
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Routes
Delta Connection carrier Trans States Airlines will introduce regional jet services between Boston and Philadelphia on 15 September with four daily Embraer RJ-145 flights, increasing to eight on 15 November. Jersey European Airways (JEA) will begin codesharing with Irish carrier CityJet on services between Dublin and London City from 1 ...
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Italian ISS module goes to Kennedy
Italy's second Alenia Aerospazio-built International Space Station (ISS) Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) Raffaello has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, aboard an Airbus Beluga freighter in preparation for its launch on the Space Shuttle STS100 Endeavour next July. The first MPLM - Leonardo - will fly in June, on ...
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First ISS commercial deal won by Spacehab
Spacehab and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) have signed an agreement which provides the US company with access to the International Space Station (ISS). In exchange for its contribution to the ISS, Canada is entitled to space on the ISS to conduct experiments. The CSA is letting half of ...
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First European experiments for space station ready to fly
Two European Space Agency (ESA) experiments will be flying on the International Space Station (ISS) later this year. A global transmission service (GTS) and the Matroshka radiation monitor will be aboard Russia's Zvezda service module in November . The GTS uses a transmitter with two dedicated frequencies to ...
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Globalstar services to begin in October
Globalstar will launch initial global mobile communications satellite services on 10 October, coinciding with the Geneva Telecom telecommunications show. The launch is being made possible following the company securing a $500 million credit facility with the Bank of America. The company, led by Loral Space and Communications and ...
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Mir crew deploy delayed antenna
Mir space station cosmonauts Viktor Afanasyev and Sergei Avdeyev completed a 5h 30min spacewalk on 25 July - probably the last to be made from the Russian craft. The cosmonauts completed the deployment of a prototype unfurlable communications antenna that could not be deployed during a walk on 23 July. ...
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Pollution threat
It will not be possible to enter earth orbit or break into deep space safely in 50 years' time unless the rate of space pollution can be reduced, says Russian scientist Vladimir Lebedev. Eight thousand objects over 10cm in diameter are in orbit with 3.5 million pieces smaller than 1mm. ...
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Lunar Prospector fails to find water
NASA's Lunar Prospector hit the south pole of the moon as planned on 31 July, but no vapour plume was detected after the impact. Scientists hope that an as-yet undetected faint plume may contain traces of either water or the hydroxyl radical formed when sunlight splits a hydrogen atom away ...
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Seal plug identified as culprit for Columbia's fuel leaks
Tim Furniss/LONDON Three liquid hydrogen coolant tubes - not one as had been presumed earlier - in one of the main engines of last month's Space Shuttle STS93 Columbia were punctured by a small plug used to seal a liquid oxygen injector tube which came loose as the ...
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Mergers
American Airlines - due to complete its $124 million merger with Reno Air on 31 August - is to meet a private mediator and negotiators from the Allied Pilots Association this week to resolve a dispute over the integration of Reno pilots. A tentative agreement struck in July proved unacceptable ...
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Falling ticket prices hit US airlines
Chris Jasper/LONDON Falling ticket prices in the USA are beginning to squeeze the profits of the country's major airlines. Figures for the first six months of this year show that few carriers were able to increase profits and that most saw income fall compared with the same period last year. ...
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Boeing wins bulk of CAL order but Airbus takes widebody deal
Boeing has taken the bulk of China Airlines' (CAL) $5.6 billion buying spree, but lost out to rival Airbus on the much prized deal to supply new medium capacity widebodies. CAL has placed firm orders for up to 19 Boeing 747-400s and five 737-800s worth $3.8 billion, while Airbus' slice ...
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Harsh financial lessons - Top 50 Airlines
After a largely successful 1998, today's going is much tougher for many major airlines Chris Jasper/LONDON The airline business has never been the world's quickest to learn the lessons of harsh financial experience. Unable to break free from a boom-bust cycle that can be traced back over several decades, ...