All Systems & interiors articles – Page 862
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Delta shows off its new.colour scheme
Delta Air Lines has unveiled a new colour scheme, the first major change in the US company's livery in 35 years. The new scheme, which will extend to the aircraft interiors, was first seen on a Boeing 767 and will be applied to the remainder of the airline's 550-strong fleet ...
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Weight of the world
Until 1993, the world of freighter wet-leasing was an obscure one. This relatively minor niche in the air-transport business had few participants, most of them well-established, specialist all-cargo carriers. In 1993, however, Michael Chowdry, chairman and chief executive of Atlas Air, entered the scene with a "lone flyer" ...
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Airbus offers extended-range HGW A330-300s
Airbus Industrie is actively offering an increased weight, extended range derivative of the A330-300 twinjet, as final assembly of the first A330-200 progresses at Toulouse. The range of the new high-gross-weight (HGW) version of the -300 would typically be boosted by some 1,300km (700nm) to around 10,200km. The ...
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Gulf Air reactivates TriStars following disposal of 767s
Gulf Air is planning to return up to three of its five stored L-1011 TriStar 200s to service, for operation on services within the Gulf, and to the Indian sub-continent. The move comes in the wake of the sale of six Boeing 767-300ERs to Delta Air Lines. One ...
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Euro liberalisation could still cause problems
The final stage of European air-transport liberalisation came into effect on 1 April, to the accompaniment of predictions that airlines will be unlikely to take full advantage of the increased market access contained within the legislation. "In most important respects, the European market has been fully liberalised since ...
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FAA demands an inspection of...
Following in-flight separation of a large section of a Delta Air Lines Boeing 767 wing-flap, more than 200 of the type worldwide have to undergo emergency inspection. The event occurred on a 27 March approach to Dallas/Forth Worth (DFW) Airport, Texas, and the pilots reported no problems countering the resulting ...
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Integrating information
LOW-OBSERVABLE AIR superiority places severe requirements on avionics that can only be met by the degree of integration evident in the F-22, says Marty Broadwell, deputy avionics team-leader. "We are collecting snippets of information, with minimum illumination, pencil beams, sensors that are passive or barely on. Alone, ...
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Millenium scare?
Sir - The aviation industry depends on computer systems which handle dates, ranging from seat reservations to flight-data processing. Typically, 80% of systems which process dates can not handle the end of the century. There are similar problems in payment systems, building security, test equipment and, possibly, navigation ...
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Pen Air launches Alaskan Saab 340 operations
Peninsula Airways, which trades as Pen Air, has introduced two Saab 340Bs on its regional network from its hub in Anchorage, Alaska. The airline, which is an Alaska Airlines codeshare partner, is operating the aircraft in a 30-seat configuration, with a specially enlarged cargo compartment, created by moving the rear ...
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BA plans for 'shell company'face opposition from USA
PLANS BY British Airways to use Airline Management (AML), a start-up company, to take on tourist routes from London Gatwick to San Juan, Puerto Rico and Tampa, Florida, have run into opposition in the USA, with claims that AML is being set up as a "shell" company without its own ...
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Hunting will sell off its non-core businesses
THE UK'S Hunting group has announced plans to disband its aviation division in a move expected to lead to the quick disposal of its aircraft-interiors businesses and the eventual sale of the cargo airline. Hunting chief executive Ken Miller says that the group wants to sell off its ...
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UK pilot-training scheme comes under threat
UK flying training schools fear that they are in danger of losing a Government scheme which can give degree status for professional-pilot graduates, along with tax relief which reduces course prices by up to ú20,000, according to a leading flying-training school. Training-industry concern has been growing about the ...
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Finnair order contest warms up
Finnair has invited final bids from Airbus and Boeing to replace its fleet of 12 ageing 121-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51s, after completing technical evaluations of the A320 family and next-generation 737. The carrier also plans to eventually replace its 25 142-seat MD-80s with whichever type is selected. The ...
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Racal develops hand-held IFF
With an eye to Europe's developing "open-skies" approach to civil-aircraft routing, Racal Wells has launched a private-venture programme to develop a hand-held identification friend-or-foe (IFF) transponder for use aboard balloons, gliders, para and hang gliders, microlights and light aircraft. Work on the design is based on a study ...
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HONEYWELL...
Top managers at avionics manufacturer Honeywell, of Phoenix, Arizona, have changed jobs. In the commercial-aviation-systems division, Dean Vittetoe, formerly customer-support director for the Americas, becomes director of strategic-supply management. He is succeeded by Bertrand Dunou, who previously headed customer support in Europe. Dunou's replacement is Adrian Paull, who has worked ...
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Insurers seek increase
Aviation insurers are seeking increases of up to 25% in premiums to cover the likely cost of ending limits on passenger-liability claims under the new International Air Transport Association (IATA) regime, which is now being put into effect by airlines around the world. Limits set under the longstanding ...
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NTSB may probe pay for training
A US aircrew-training practice in which airlines require pilots to pay for their own training has prompted one of the country's leading pilot associations to call for an investigation into the practice by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) The practice is already under examination by a Federal Aviation ...
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Piper's two tunes
New Piper aircraft has hit its mark, it seems, with its first new model since emerging from bankruptcy nearly three years ago. Its Seneca V is a high-flying, fast, efficient aircraft which delivers equally in both aviation benefits and office ac- coutrements. With its blend of near-turboprop speed, high-altitude cruising ...
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Private funds elude Alitalia
Put your wallet away: Alitalia's no longer for sale. The carrier has abandoned its quest for private investors and turned to state holding company IRI for the full capital injection. The Italian treasury has now confirmed that IRI will inject the remaining L1.5 trillion (US$880 million) of fresh ...
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Blood, sweat and Gore
The aims of the Gore Commission report are laudable but Karen Walker and Dave Knibb ask whether the recommendations are workable. Financially, most US airlines had cause to celebrate by the end of last year, but 1996 had its darker side. A total of 380 people were killed in US ...