Cold comfort

The CIS Interstate Aviation Committee - Aviation Register has certificated Airbus Industrie's A300-600 and-600R, and has cleared the Pratt & Whitney-powered Airbus A310 for extreme-cold-weather operations. The cold-weather trials, carried out in January at Yakutsk, Eastern Siberia, cleared the aircraft down to a ground-temperature of -54°C, as opposed to the ...

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