All Systems & Interiors news – Page 320
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European Union plans €3 billion a year human exploration roadmap
Ambitious visions for the next decade call for human space exploration and a sample return mission to the red planet
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Iberia reconfigures long-haul business class
Iberia is to reconfigure the Business Plus cabins of its Airbus A340 fleet to include fully flat beds. Reconfiguration is scheduled to take place by...
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Training to fly a desk
This is the story of five graduates from the airline pilot training system who face a situation familiar to many flightcrew today: plenty of qualifications and no job
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NewsAir France A380 yet to receive fourth cabin class
Air France's first Airbus A380 is fitted in three-class configuration, although the carrier plans to have its entire long-haul fleet converted to to a four-class...
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Opinion
Comment: SESAR off the radar?
Air traffic management is usually low on the political horizon unless there is a crisis, but with traffic down, the Single European Sky is in danger of disappearing behind the clouds
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Continental eyes lie-flat seats on Boeing 767-200s
Continental Airlines is evaluating installing lie-flat seats on its Boeing 767-200ERs as the new seat made its debut today on a 777 flight from the carrier's...
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Bombardier to offer wider middle seat for CSeries
Bombardier plans to feature a wider middle seat aboard its CSeries single-aisle aircraft. The the five-abreast 100 to 125-seat CS100 and larger 120...
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Opinion
Comment: Awakening from a connectivity coma
Boeing has far more important things to worry about than deciding what in-flight connectivity it will choose for the 787. Shouldn't it focus on getting the...
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Slow burners
Although production of the older Russian and Chinese regional types runs at a trickle, upgrades are still being developed
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Niche benefits
During the summer, France-based GECI International marked a new phase in its aim to maintain a presence in the light utility twin-turboprop market
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Plans for the future
As new updates come on stream, ATR and Bombardier are now evaluating their next moves in theturboprop sector Both of the major turboprop manufacturers...
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Crew skills under the spotlight in London
Airline pilot performance in non-standard situations is being affected by the way in which line flying has changed over the past 20 years, says Airbus's...
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Regional revolution
History will decide whether 2009 will represent one of the watersheds that occurs in civil aviation every decade or so.
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Australia approves Delta-Virgin trans-Pacific joint venture
Australia's competition watchdog has given Virgin Blue and Delta Air Lines permission to form a joint venture to operate trans-Pacific flights.
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Qantas joins sustainable fuel development effort
Australia's Qantas Airways has joined the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group, an industry effort to develop commercially successful sustainable jet fuel.
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Qantas traffic up 2.7% in September
Passenger traffic at Australia's Qantas Airways and its subsidiaries increased in September due to domestic demand, but the carrier warns that yields remain...
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NewsNo survivors as Il-76 crashes in eastern Russia
None of the 11 occupants of an Ilyushin Il-76 has survived after the heavy transport crashed after departure from Mirny in the Sakha republic. The...
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FAA mulls GPS interference detector, corrector
The US FAA is studying the possibility of deploying a nationwide network of GPS interference detectors that would be placed on cellular communications towers...
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Lufthansa kick-starts broadband race again
When Connexion by Boeing switched off its in-flight broadband connectivity solution at the end of 2006, its largest customer Lufthansa assumed another Ku-band...