All aerospace news – Page 1796
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Heliport shortage cramps manufacturers' style
Paul Derby With industry analysts predicting a surge of growth for the helicopter fractional ownership market, manufacturers and operators have a tricky problem to grapple with - where exactly do they take off and land? The issue of infrastructure is one that has been perplexing not just potential ...
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Space
Boeing's Delta II team's launch record in 1998 of 14 vehicles and delivering 41 spacecraft to orbit, led to the company to win the Space category award. Judges said the team's work "demonstrated outstanding performance in support of US Government and commercial space programmes". The Delta II ...
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Air transport
Smiths Industries Aerospace and Alaska Airlines won the Air Transport award for using Smiths' flight management system (FMS) and GPS to eliminate non-precision approaches. The team pioneered required navigation performance 0.15 approach and departures at Juneau Airport in Alaska. Terrain at the airport rises from sea level to ...
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Horizon Air launches QUIET Q400 in North America
Alan Peaford Horizon Air has become the North American launch customer of Bombardier's Q400 in a $321-million deal announced at the show yesterday. The Seattle-based airline placed a firm order for 15 of the super quiet 70-passenger aircraft with options on an additional 15. Bombardier announced a ...
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Catering deal
Aviation services firm Alpha Airports has bought a British Airways in-flight catering operation at Gatwick for $22.4 million. It has also struck a new 10-year deal with BA to supply in-flight catering at Gatwick and other regional airports. It expects turnover to be around $96 million in the first ...
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Embraer announces record $4.9bn order
Karen Walker Embraer has announced a stunning $4.9 billion order from Crossair for 75 firm aircraft with 125 options. The contract marks the Brazilian manufacturer's formal launch of its new ERJ-170 and ERJ-190 family of regional jets. The deal is described by Crossair president and chief executive ...
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Philippines team awaits fate
The future at Philippines Airlines (PAL) of five-member consulting team Regent Star Services is in doubt as talks between the carrier and Lufthansa Consulting gain ground. Reports from Manila indicate that the contracts of the five ex-Cathay Pacific Airways executives, led by Peter Foster, are likely to be terminated on ...
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Crew collapse traced to cargo door crack
New details of a depressurisation incident on the world's highest time Boeing 737-200 now revealed by investigators tell how the captain and senior flight attendant spent several minutes unconscious when a crack that had gone undetected for 17 years let cabin air escape. The aircraft, of UK charter ...
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Smoke success
An industry study has provided a conclusive demonstration that head up displays (HUDs) offer a significant improvement in viewing conditions over conventional electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) displays in a cockpit smoke environment. Marconi Avionics' study programme for civil air transport aircraft investigated the operation of its commercial Visual ...
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Comfort on the ground
Passenger comfort even before they leave the ground is the name of the game for Kusch of Germany. Kusch's distinctive stainless steel bench seating can be found in airports from Johannesburg to Dublin. As well as being durable and vandalism-resistant, the seating offers good comfort - and great looks. ...
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Cosmonauts in bid to save Mir
Russian cosmonauts are battling to keep their country's space programme up in the air by launching a fundraising campaign to raise $100 million to save the Mir space station. Vitaly Sevastyanov and Georgy Titov, veterans of the Soviet space programme, have now asked all Russians to contribute to a ...
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VGS certification
Certification is expected to be completed this summer for Cat3 operation of Marconi Avionics' Visual Guidance System (VGS) on board a Boeing 737-800. This programme is directly linked to the award of a contract for up to 500 Visual Guidance Systems planned for American Airlines new-build Boeing 737-800 fleet ...
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TV support
Rockwell's Collins Aviation Services has been selected to provide product support of seat-back TV In-Flight Entertainment equipment on board British Airways' Boeing 747 and 777 aircraft. Source: Flight Daily News
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Kendell support
Rockwell Collins Aviation Services (CAS) has been selected to provide its Dispatch 100SM service to Australian operator Kendell Airlines. Under a five-year agreement, CAS will provide logistic support through leased spares and maintenance support for the new Collins avionics suite aboard 12 new Canadair CRJs that Kendell will operate ...
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Johnson: eBusiness the future for AlliedSignal
Just 24 hours before news of AlliedSignal's planned merger with Honeywell stunned the aviation community, AlliedSignal Aerospace's president and CEO Bob Johnson talked to Flight Daily News on his company's aims and prospects. AlliedSignal Aerospace had, itself, recently completed a major internal reorganisation. Commercial confidentiality obviously meant he could give ...
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Wave of US takeovers 'set to continue' claims L-3
Alan Dron At last September's Farnborough air show, Frank Lanza, chairman and chief executive officer of New York-based L-3 Communications, predicted that US second- and third-tier companies in L-3's market sector would go through the same consolidation process that has swept through the top rank of that nation's aerospace ...
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S-92 go-ahead within year
Sikorsky says it will make a decision on a production go-ahead for the S-92 medium helicopter "within a year" as a utility version of the machine goes on static display here this week. The S-92 was primarily designed to be a 19-seat civil helicopter, with a military transport ...
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Expert warns of aircraft seat deterioration
Tamzin Hindmarch Safety experts have warned of the dangers of failing to replace ageing aircraft seats. Rond Moore works for American aircraft interiors firm Skandia, which specialises in testing passenger seats. Speaking on behalf of his team, who are exhibiting at the air show this week, he ...
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Spain joins Argentina for space project
A high resolution remote sensing satellite is being developed by Spain and Argentina. Called Cesar, the satellite will be launched in 2003 and will be able to transmit 5m resolution images of the Earth, the Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA) says at Le Bourget. INTA, which is ...
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Boeing delivers vital space station truss
Tim Furniss Boeing delivered a vital component of the International Space Station (ISS) to NASA's Kennedy Space Centre (KSC), Florida on Friday. Called the S-Zero Truss, it will form part of what will eventually be the ISS's girder-like framed crossbeam. The S-Zero will be the first starboard truss ...