All Systems & Interiors news – Page 892
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Super facilities
DAC IS PROUD OF THE advanced lavatory design developed for the MD-95 in association with Jamco. "Using concurrent design and engineering techniques, we've been able to provide much more lav for the money," comments MD-95 programme management interiors IPT project manager, Terry Watson. "This lavatory looks more like ...
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Deregulation: not as good a picture as it is painted
Sir - The article "Low-cost carriers save passengers $6 billion" (Flight International, 1-7 May, P10) raises hope that European "deregulation" will bring a similar reduction in air fares. Judging by results in the USA, however, the real benefit for airline passengers is difficult to measure. Less than 3% ...
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Fairchild considers a 'stand-up' Metro
FAIRCHILD AIRCRAFT will decide by late July whether to launch a version of its Metro 23 19-seat regional airliner with a "stand-up" cabin. The aircraft would be available 24 months after launch, says chairman Carl Albert. The cabin would be stretched vertically, to give the same 1.8m aisle ...
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Sanders
Lockheed Martin electronics company Sanders, of Nashua, New Hampshire, has named Paul Cotter C-130J programme manager at the avionics division. With the former Lockheed Electronics since 1977, Cotter was most recently business area manager for fire-control and sensor systems. Robert Cotter becomes director for displays and mission computers at the ...
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Hunting interior slips
Hunting has shed two top executives from its Aviation division after cost overruns on its contract to supply interior kits to Bombardier for the Dash-8. Ian Marsh, chief executive of Hunting Aviation, and John Adkins, who heads the interiors business, have both left. Source: Flight International
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Airliner hulls set to be 'fireproofed'
FIRE WILL TAKE TWICE as long to burn through an airliner fuselage if materials being tested by the US Federal Aviation Administration achieve their promise, giving greater time for passenger evacuation and for firefighters to bring the blaze under control. The development could have great lifesaving potential, notably ...
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NTSB investigates oxygen canisters in crashed DC-9
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Karen Walker/ATLANTADavid Learmount/LONDON FOCUS ON WHAT caused the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-9-30 accident in Florida, USA, is concentrating on oxygen-canisters wreckage is slowly recovered from the Everglades swampland into which the aircraft dived on 11 May. US National Transportation Safety ...
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China Eastern A340-300s arrive
China Eastern Airlines took delivery of its first of eight A340-300s on 15 May. The Shanghai-based carrier is the first airline in the People's Republic of China to receive the long-haul aircraft. A340 services will be inaugurated in June, between Shanghai and Los Angeles. China Eastern's A340s are configured with ...
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Muddy waters
THE GREATEST problem of aircraft-accident investigation is not the disappearance of the evidence into a Florida swamp or the unreadability of data-recorder tapes. It is the demand by the mass media and its customers for instant answers, and the temptation of those on the periphery of the investigation to give ...
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Spritely contender
Peter Gray/BLOOMFIELD, CONNECTICUT Shortlisted for selection by the Australian and New Zealand navies, the "Super" version of Kaman's Seasprite has come a long way from the original launch model. THE KAMAN SEASPRITE was first flown in 1959 and was developed and sold to the US Navy as a single-engined ...
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Fighting gear
McDonnell Douglas has selected BFGoodrich Aerospace's Cleveland, Ohio, Landing Gear division to supply the nose and main landing-gear for its Joint Strike Fighter (formerly Joint Advanced Strike Technology) design. Source: Flight International
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Training must be a viable industry
Sir - I refer to your leader "Unique Internationalism" and story "AST becomes first victim of UK training policy" (Flight International, 8-14 May, P3, P6). Rumours of the demise of Air Services Training (AST) predate either National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) or foreign training. In fact, the school is ...
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Wicat pulls in trainer sales
WICAT SYSTEMS has secured contracts for McDonnell Douglas MD-80, MD-90 and MD-11 part-task trainers and unveiled plans to develop similar devices for the Boeing 777. SAS Flight Academy, part of Scandinavian Airlines System, has ordered an MD-90 systems trainer for delivery in the third quarter of 1996. It ...
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An-2 production poised to restart at PZL-Mielec
POLISH AIRCRAFT manufacturer PZL-Mielec is considering restarting production of the Antonov An-2 biplane. A batch of 22 aircraft could be built initially. Mielec says that no formal decision has been made on the subject, adding that it is still awaiting the results of market research before giving ...
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Seat installation
Pilots of aircraft with nine or fewer seats can now remove and re-install seats in cabins, in the absence of a mechanic, under new US rules long sought by the National Air Transportation Association. Source: Flight International
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SAS Recovery
The profits recovery at SAS, continued through the first quarter, largely because of the end of exchange-rate losses which ravaged the 1994 results. Although overall passenger traffic was up by 7%, cost also rose and yields remained flat, with much of the growth coming from the back of the cabin. ...
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IFE delivery delays hit BEA profits
THE IMPACT OF DELAYS to deliveries of its interactive in-flight entertainment (IFE) systems caught up with BE Aerospace (BEA) in 1995, leaving the group showing a net loss of $83 million. BEA, which has been waiting to cash in on its growing backlog of IFE orders, announced in ...
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Leaving on a high
Allan Winn/LONDON SIR CHRISTOPHER Chataway retires from the chairmanship of the UK Civil Aviation Authority at the end of this month. In his five years as chairman, he has overseen a dramatic improvement in efficiency and productivity in an organisation, which, he acknowledges, may in the past have ...
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UPS may package passengers
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA UPS Airlines is considering operating weekend passenger-charter services using otherwise-idle cargo aircraft. As a first move, quick-change conversion kits for five Boeing 727-100 freighters are being considered as a way to increase aircraft utilisation. The results of a study into the feasibility of offering passenger-charter services to tour ...
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Power Pool
THE COMMERCIAL-ENGINES business is among the biggest of big-risk businesses, and the risk is seldom bigger than when a new engine is required for an as-yet-unproven large airliner. So it should come as no surprise that two engine manufacturers should pool resources to minimise the risk of participating in such ...