Content Archive: September 2008

Maintenance and Modifications

Engine OEM mulls composite fan blades

UK-based Rolls-Royce and GKN Aerospace have established a joint venture to study the use of composite materials in fan blades.
Safety

Toxic air: cabin air quality could have deadly results

The quality of cabin air remains a concern for aircraft manufacturers in their quest to ensure the safety of crewmembers and passengers.
Accidents

Scientists studying pulsars as potential GPS backup

Operators in the future will possibly be able to use X-rays from pulsating stars–or pulsars– light years away from earth to navigate with the same accuracy
Safety

FAA studies FOD detection systems

The FAA has begun trials of four separate systems designed to automatically detect, report and pinpoint the location of foreign objects on airport runways.
Maintenance and Modifications

Simav improves carbon fiber recycling

French company Simav is developing a new thermal process, thermolysis, to recycle the carbon fiber contained in composite materials and claims that its pro
Cabin Interior and Electronics

BAE converts RJs for bizav

BAE Systems Regional Aircraft this year will deliver six more of its corporate-configured, four-engine Avro RJs for a variety of business and government op
FBOs

Kuala Lumpur FBO welcomes bizav

ExecuJet Aviation and Hawker Pacific have begun operating the new Skypark FBO at Kuala Lumpur’s Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport.
Airports

With its new terminal complete, Le Bourget plans next project

Dassault Aviation and Unijet, two companies that have a long history at Paris Le Bourget, have been selected to operate from the new terminal at the dedica
Aircraft

DOT: Eclipse Certification Probe ‘Just Beginning’

Last Wednesday’s congressional hearing on FAA certification and
Aircraft

In The Works: Gippsland Aeronautics Next-Generation Nomad

The dwindling ranks of Australian-designed and -built Nomad twin turboprops may yet grow again as Gippsland Aeronautics has purchased the Nomad program and