All Safety News – Page 1275
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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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Don Bateman is honoured with top award
Don Bateman, chief engineer of AlliedSignal's avionics team, last night achieved one of the industry's greatest accolades when he was awarded the title Aerospace Industry's Personality of the Year. Batemen was honoured at a glittering ceremony at Le Musée des Arts Forains in Bercy where hundreds of aerospace professionals ...
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Chinese predict return to profit
Taiwan's China Airlines (CAL) is reporting an average load factor for the five months leading up to May of 72% - up five percentage points over the previous year - and continues to forecast a 1999 year-end return to profitability. CAL says its average load factor from January to ...
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Cathay set to return to full service
Cathay Pacific Airways is targeting 18 June for the resumption of normal services as it re-trains returning pilots and closes charters with other carriers established under its pilots' recent 'sick-out'. Spokeswoman, Diana Fung, says from Hong Kong that the carrier will operate at 89% of normal capacity today, ...
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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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ATC simulator
Communications and Systems (CS) is showing a tower simulator it has developed for Aeroport de Paris "CDG". It features a full 360deg airfield and traffic display, preparation and management of training exercises, realistic modelling of aircraft and ground vehicles, approach radar display and weather information. CS (Hall 2/F6) has ...
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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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GPS rollover promises prelude to millennium
Never mind the millennium bug, some GPS users can expect problems long before 1 January 2000 - 22 August to be precise. This is the date for an event known as "GPS Week Number Rollover" and refers to the week number transmitted in the satellite navigation message changing ...
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717 rolls on
There'll be some very proud Israelis watching the Boeing 717-200 in the flying display - the entire undercarriage is made by the SHL division of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI). SHL has so far delivered 15 landing gear systems for the 100-seat airliner, having been awarded the contract in 1998. The ...
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Green future for P&W's JT8D family
Geoff Thomas Pratt & Whitney's ubiquitous JT8D-200 family of engines will now be much 'greener', thanks to a new Environmental Kit (E-Kit) combustor system which exceeds all ICAO standards for new production engines. It also qualifies for one of the world's toughest emission categories, Switzerland's Class 5. ...
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Kit aircraft is a real Revelation
Tamzin Hindmarch Small aircraft mean big business for Slipstream president Michael Puhl who has turned his hobby into a thriving enterprise. The Revelation can be seen sitting pretty in front of the USA conference hall at the airshow like a large model aeroplane, and like a model, can ...
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Condor project evaluates integrated data system
Condor Flugdienst, the charter affiliate of Lufthansa German Airlines, has installed the Rockwell Collins Integrated Information System (I2S) on two A320 aircraft as part of Condor's Aircraft Integrated Network (CAIN) project. This project, which Rockwell Collins and Condor have conducted in Europe, tests the technologies required to link an ...
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Who's to blame?
The two-man crew of the Su-30MK that crashed at the show on Saturday, last night sensationally blamed the show organisers for the disaster. Sukhoi chief test pilot Viacheslav Averianov (right) and navigator Vladimir Shendrik said the organiser's decision to cut their display from eight to six minutes was to ...
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Shenyang deal extends Sino-links
Geoff Thomas BMW Rolls-Royce is to extend its Sino-links by signing a long-term deal with CATIC Supply and Shenyang Engine Manufacturing at Le Bourget today. The deal - to be signed by BMW Rolls-Royce's operations director Neil Ansell and a representative of CATIC - is believed to involve ...
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Airbus juggles final assembly sites for flexibility
Hamburg has been chosen for the final assembly of the 107-seat Airbus Industrie A318 - but some of its A319 production will move to Toulouse, it was announced at the show yesterday. Airbus chief executive Noel Forgeard says the decision to split the A319 final assembly offers production flexibility. ...
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Amsafe promotes airbags for safety
Steve Nichols If we can have airbags in cars, why can't we have them in aircraft? This should be the question on any passenger's lips as they step on board a flight. Statistics show that 77% of all aircraft crashes are survivable, but survivability is not enough. Should ...
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Multi warhead teamwork on display
Andy Douse Within the last six months, two international teams have been formed to create a new 'force' in warhead technology. They're called Team Lancer and Team Fuzing, and they're at Le Bourget to tell you more. Team Lancer provides multi-warhead solutions for the attack and defeat ...
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Corporate jet leads Airbus 30-year anniversary
Air show veterans will recall the launch of the Airbus Industrie A300 in 1969... then raise a glass to the astonishing organisation celebrating its 30th anniversary at Le Bourget. Airbus is here in style, with a pair of firsts - showing off the Airbus A319 Corporate Jetliner (A319CJ) ...
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Airlines rapped
Airlines could face legal action if they fail to change their scheduled flight contracts to make them fairer to passengers. The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has backed complaints made by the Air Transport Users' Council and published a list of 30 airline contract terms which it says ...