China Eastern Airlines has become the first carrier to own the A350 XWB equipped with the new device. The new touchscreen cockpit display was developed in collaboration with Thales. The device is expected to offer enhanced operational efficiencies, greater crew interaction, cockpit symmetry and smoother information management. Out of the aircraft cockpit’s six larg...
Powered by Pratt & Whitney GTF engines, Airbus A320neo family features the widest single-aisle cabin. The GTF engine entered service in early 2016 and has since delivered a 16% fuel consumption reduction. The engine also decreases noise levels by 75% while nitrogen oxide emissions reduced by 50% compared with the regulatory standard. Pratt & Whitney customers ch...
The final assembly and integration of the plane’s systems, including the cockpit eXternal Visibility System, is scheduled for later next year. KDP-D is the final programmatic barrier for the X-59 QueSST aircraft and was conducted by senior managers at Nasa Headquarters in Washington. The officials will meet again in later next year to clear the plane’s first flight...
The ePlane is the result of a collaboration between North American seaplane airline Harbour Air and electric aircraft motor manufacturer magniX. In March, the two companies reached a partnership to convert Harbour Air seaplanes into an all-electric commercial fleet. The aircraft will be powered by the magni500, a 75HP all-electric motor. ePlane is a six-passenger D...
The investors include Millennium Technology Value Partners, Third Point Ventures, Eastward Capital Partners, and others. PrecisionHawk will use the investment to continue enhancing its software tool and PrecisionAnalytics, which uses artificial intelligence/machine learning. It will also facilitate PrecisionHawk’s next phase of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) deploym...
Under the agreement, Avation will lease a new ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft to Braathens for ten years. The aircraft is the fifth to be leased by Avation and will be handed over at the manufacturer’s facility in Toulouse, France, in March 2020. Braathens initially ordered four ATR 72-600 aircraft, with the first being delivered this month. The remaining aircraft...
The European manufacturer, which holds firm orders for more than 120 of the type, handed over the first example to launch customer Arkia Israeli Airlines in November last year. TAP Portugal and Air Arabia each took delivery of one A321LR—fitted with CFM International Leap-1A engines—earlier this year, out of orders for twelve and six respectively. The A321LR’s long-range...
The heat-seeking drone is designed to help its human rescue teams find people who are lost, injured or ill in the mountains of Switzerland and Lichtenstein, where Rega operates. The small drone is equipped with infrared and daylight cameras, as well as a mobile phone tracking function, which can spot a phone within an uninhabited area from hundreds of metres away – an...
It is said to ensure reliable chip-breaking and a soft cut, leading to high feed rates and fast machining times. Additionally, tool longevity is increased by up to 60%. Type 224 inserts with the new WT geometry are available in increments of 2, 2.5 and 3mm in carbide grade IG35 and are designed for Horn’s H224 tool holders. Coupled with this development, the Swiss gro...
The scheme allows customers to avoid relatively high upfront capital expenditure yet immediately benefit from the machines’ ability to drastically reduce lead times by completing a range of different tasks in a single setting. As with all machines offered by Starrag UK, the Bumotecs can be configured exactly to suit users’ needs in line with Starrag’s ‘Engineering pre...
Thompson Aero Seating was awarded the contract for the new seating when LATAM decided to refresh its existing fleet of 767 and 777 aircraft. The brief was for the FRMs to flow seamlessly into the seating, and Thompson selected AIM Altitude as the best option to provide a high-quality and aesthetically pleasing product to meet the stringent requirements. AIM Altitude p...
With a spindle distance of 800mm and spindle speeds to 20,000rpm, the two-spindle DZ 25 P 5-axis – introduced at EMO 2019 – is designed for double-spindle machining of large aluminium structural components with a work area up to 799mm diameter per position. The series of twin spindle machines is designed for machining high-value components with a combination of produc...
The ISO 00P is a universal tool system for general mechanical engineering and mould making. As the inserts are mounted in a neutral position in the tool holder, they ensure a high level of contouring accuracy. Despite the neutral position, the edge geometry enables a soft cut to be achieved. With the RHOMBItec system, Boehlerit is presenting a universal finishing tool...
Providing a highly cost-effective option for large diameter drilling, the Hydra program supports structural and general engineering applications. Its range of solid carbide heads – for steel, stainless steel and cast iron – are married together with a hardened steel body. Existing body options – 3xD, 5xD and 8xD – have been expanded with a 12xD for deep hole applicati...
The latest UP2DATE focusses on brand new developments and upgrades with indexable inserts from Cutting Solutions by Ceratizit and rotary tools and workholding from WNT, two of the Team Cutting Tools product brands. Key among the many innovations announced in UP2Date is the new CTPX710 multi-purpose insert grade from Ceratizit. With the latest Dragonskin coating and ca...
Mills CNC, the exclusive distributor of Doosan machine tools in the UK and Ireland, has recently supplied a new, large-capacity vertical turning lathe to Unilathe – a leading precision subcontract specialist based in Stoke-on-Trent. The machine, a Fanuc controlled Doosan VT1100, was installed at Unilathe’s 82,000ft2 facility in August 2019 and has been positioned adja...
The company also anticipates that the solution will improve safety by providing more accurate measurements while reducing wear caused by the need to manually check each fastener is tightened sufficiently – further improving cost efficiencies. Introducing an advanced level of smart connectivity to mechanical engineering, SMART WASHER performs the fundamental role of a ...
In a joint press statement released on Thursday, the companies said the recently completed wind-tunnel testing phase involved a “high-speed standard model” (HSM) made to a scale of 1:39 for the wing-fuselage configuration. The HSM model in question involves a joint design by Russian and Chinese specialists in aerodynamics. TsAGI performed the testing in the T-128 transon...
Airbus has offered a longer-range variant of the A350-1000 as its Project Sunrise contender while Boeing proposed its new 777-8X. Airbus would add another fuel tank and slightly increase the maximum takeoff weight of the A350-1000 to give it the required range. Qantas has yet to place an order but expects it will need 12 aircraft. The airline said it would work closel...
The sale of the 2019 is the best time to buy a new dream gyroplane with a discount of up to 39 000 €. When choosing from the 2019 sales sale, it’s worth to be the first because you can configure individual equipment variants or colors by the end of December. Choose your new gyroplane from the 2019 sale today and take advantage of numerous discounts! LIMIT...
A group of UK experts has successfully flown the first ever large-scale aircraft powered by variable-buoyancy propulsion. The Phoenix is designed to repeatedly transition from being lighter than air to being heavier than air so thrust is generated to propel the craft forward. The team behind the ultra-long endurance autonomous aircraft includes representatives fro...
This particular aircraft, registered YL-AAU, is an A220-300 variant for airBaltic, one of the largest operators of the type, who has successfully remodelled its business and growth plan around the type. The A220 Family is assembled at Airbus’ main Final Assembly Line in Mirabel and more recently, also at the programme’s second assembly line in Mobile, Alabama. The wor...
The vibrant ‘Year of Tolerance’ livery depicts a panorama of people from diverse backgrounds and cultures holding hands in solidarity, celebrating the UAE’s message of multiculturalism. The colourful illustrations adorn both sides of the aircraft. After its debut today, this aircraft will fly across Emirates’ A380 network of over 50 destinations for the next twelve month...
Led by UK Leamington-spa based engineering consultancy Drive System Design (DSD) the 12-month project, which is part-funded by Innovate UK and also involves the National Composites Centre (NCC) will investigate the use of composites to enable increased power density and reduced unit size. “Vehicle range at reasonable cost is still one of the biggest barriers to wi...
Rolls-Royce Power Systems, a German subsidiary of the gas turbine, aerospace and nuclear giant, is collaborating with Lab1886, an innovation laboratory that is part of Mercedes-Benz, to develop and deploy hydrogen fuel cells for stationary power generation. The units, to be sold under the brand name MTU, are aimed specifically at providing continuous and emergency power ...
They are one of our top hotel brands, alongside Soneva, for the ultimate in luxurious getaways. So you can imagine our excitement at the announcement of a brand new Aman Private Jet service that allows passengers to craft their own itineraries across some of the most remote properties around the globe. Unlike the Four Seasons private jet, or Crystal AirCruises, this i...
From now on, Austrian Airlines passengers on flights operated by a Boeing 777 aircraft can virtually discover their favorite seat and reserve it directly during the booking process via a new 3D Seatmap. Previously, this was only available in a two-dimensional version. For the implementation of the 3D Seatmaps, Austrian Airlines is working with the Spanish agency Renacen....
While ANA lunched the Room, JAL has also recently launched the upgraded cabin interior of their international Boeing 777-300ER aircraft fleet, extending tangerine’s “Infused Essence” design strategy that was developed for JAL’s newly acquired domestic A350-900(359) aircraft, which launched in June 2019.The design might look familiar, and that’s because the hard product i...
The four-class aircraft will feature the same exclusive eight seat First cabin which is also available on its 787-9 Dreamliner. The aircraft also comes fitted with British Airways’ recently unveiled business class seat Club Suite, in a 48-seat forward-facing Club World cabin. The World Traveller Plus cabin will offer 35 seats and the World Traveller cabin, 165. Al...
The expanded sample inventory includes eight new part numbers ranging from OM4 fibre optics 1.8mm Simplex, CAN Bus shielded pair, Ethernet specialty quadrax, and shielded twisted pair. Gore recently streamlined the company’s business offerings with more efficient ordering and manufacturing processes to deliver reliable solutions quickly to OEMs and users. Complimen...
Holes from 3mm to 7mm in diameter may be drilled into solid material using Supermini HP tools without a chipbreaker. While the performance data cannot compete with normal drills, the system is a practical solution if the number of cutter locations in a machine is limited. With the single-edged version, various hole diameters can be produced with a single tool. The Sup...
SOLIDWORKS 2020 features enhancements, new capabilities and workflows that enable more than six million SOLIDWORKS users to accelerate and improve product development, from conceptual design to manufactured products, and create value for their organisations. Dassault Systèmes’ R&D team says it has delivered SOLIDWORKS 2020 in response to thousands of enhancement reque...
The new CoroDrill 860 solid carbide drill with -SM geometry has been developed to provide robust process security, high hole integrity and excellent tool life, making it ideal for safeguarding quality when performing hole making in ISO S materials like HRSAs. A new grade, 1210, which also features a new coating, is available for the CoroDrill 860 solid carbide drill w...
The benefits of ceramic over carbide inserts are the greater heat resistance of ceramic which allows cutting speeds up to 20 times higher than could be achieved previously, with surface speeds up to 1,000m/min possible. While carbide inserts remain as the cutting material of choice for finish machining these materials the development of ceramic insert technology is highl...
AOF units can be machine-mounted or supplied with separate stands where required and are designed to use the wind shear principle for initial separation of mist from airstreams. As the contaminant loading on the fan is very low, typically they do not suffer from loss of impeller balance and so can be serviced in-house at relatively long intervals. Units are supplied as s...
