All Safety News – Page 1381
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Avionics suite
A complete suite of avionics from AlliedSignal Aerospace is on display at the show in the new Boeing 737-700. The company's latest flight safety and other avionics to be found on the aircraft, includes the Quantum Line of communications and navigation systems with its voice/data radio, instrument landing ...
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Free flight solution launch by Honeywell
Honeywell has launched what officials claim to be the world's first "total system solution" to the challenges of free flight. WorldNav is here at the show. "We are excited to offer our customers a total system solution to the technology breakthrough we call free flight," says Don Schwanz, president ...
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Parker reunion
California-based Parker Aerospace is bringing together all the elements of its product range for the first time in the company's history at Le Bourget. Parker produces a wide range of aviation components, from flight controls to fuel systems. The company can be found at Hall 4/D4. ...
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Moving parts
Components ranging from a tail fin tip of an MD-90 airliner to a mast torque system from a Bell Boeing V-22 are among the exhibits on the GKN Westland Aerospace stand (Hall 2/C15). The company's operations are organised into five businesses - structures, transmissions, design services, systems and fuel cells. ...
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Sighting success
The German optronics company Zeiss-Eltro Optronic (ZEO) is setting its sights on success in Hall 2C E/23. Among other things, the firm is showing its new Airborne Targeting and Navigation Pod called Litening. The low-cost, high-performance multisensor Laser Designator Pod is designed for day and night air-to-ground attack ...
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CEIS location
Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT) are mandatory on French aircraft, so last year French firm Ceis developed a new one which they are showing off here at Paris. When the automatic sensor detects a crash it sends a signal received by a satellite dedicated system so the exact location ...
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Kept in the dark
Do you fancy flying in the dark? If so Portuguese firm OGMA, here for its tenth consecutive show, may be able to help you out. The firm, found in Hall 4, stand D9, is showing for the first time multi-function displays used for retrofitting aircraft. The ...
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Shen named Aerospace Personality of the Year
The improvement in China's levels of air safety was rewarded in Paris last night through the recognition of Shen Yuankang as the Aerospace Personality of the Year. Shen, vice-minister of the General Administration of civil Aviation of China, is one of the senior regulators who has played a key ...
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Miami expansion programme continues
Miami International Airport officials were more than happy to welcome a cavalcade of public visitors at their stand yesterday, having the dual role of promoting both Miami's tourism and airport infrastructure. An ongoing US$4 billion expansion programme, started in 1992, continues at the airport - which will be ...
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Noratlas travels back to the future
A once-familiar sight in the skies of France - where its distinctive shape was well-known - is visiting Le Bourget, bringing an attractive and historic dimension to the 1997 Show. The last-remaining airworthy Nord 2501 Noratlas transport aircraft in the world (from more than 400 originally built between ...
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New models evolve from within the CASA range
Spanish company CASA has launched two new projects at Le Bourget, both of them evolutions of aircraft in the existing range. Speaking at the show on Monday, CASA's chairman Raul Herranz announced that a stretched version of the CN235 will be produced - for delivery by the beginning ...
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Thumbs up from Eurofighter pilots
"Eurofighter systems are go - all we're waiting for now is for the politicians to join us." So said Eurofighter's chairman John Weston, speaking yesterday at Le Bourget. With all seven prototype aircraft now flying, and the test programme having achieved a total of 411 flights (with 21 ...
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Close shave for prop blade
A famous grand prix driver once described racing around the streets of Monaco as being akin to motorcycle scrambling in your front room. He could well have added: "...and positioning huge exhibits in the static display parks of major air shows." As this photo by a Flight Daily ...
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CFMI joins Chinese in new working alliance
CFM International (CFMI) and Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) have joined forces in a Joint Leadership Council to coordinate activities and promote a closer working relationship between the two organisations. Talks are being pursued at the Paris air show between Gerard Laviec, CFMI chairman and chief executive officer, ...
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Kit gives tools to restrain louts in flights
A disturbing rise in the number of unruly passengers on commercial aircraft has opened a window of opportunity for British firm Percival Aviation (Hall 2/J14). The company is coming to the aid of airlines with a specially-designed passenger restraint pack. As well as 'quickcuffs', to gain ...
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Messier-Dowty lands two contracts
Franco-British joint venture Messier-Dowty has been chosen to supply undercarriage systems for two new aircraft types, the Airbus A340-500 and -600 and the Fairchild Dornier 328JET. A spokesman said at the show that the main and nose landing gears for the developed Airbus design will be a "significant ...
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Long range Emb-145 under development
Embraer has begun developing a long-range version of the EMB-145. The new version of the 50-seat regional jet is expected to be launched next April. Powered by a new Rolls-Royce Allison AE3007A1 engine with increased thrust, the long range EMB-145 features improved climb and hot-weather cruise ...
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DuPont prepares for growth in safety industry
Recognising the rapid growth in air transportation expected over the next 20 years, DuPont Safety and Environmental Management Services (SEMS) has appointed an industry development manager. The company says that the appointment of James Brock, Jnr allows it to better focus on the specific safety needs of the ...
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Help at hand for aircrews
Imagine heaving a 100kg service trolley up a 25 degree incline along an aircraft aisle. Cabin attendants do it all the time, pulling or pushing laden meal, drink, waste and sales carts. The result is often acute back problems and even sick leave, as the metal plates that ...
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Tyre tracks
Goodyear has introduced an industry first which makes it possible to track the life of an aircraft's tyres. And showing a touch of corporate humour it's called the system-Bumpy. Tyres on show at Hall 5 (F17) have a vulcanised black on black bar-coded serial number added in addition to ...