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TAG Aviation Helps Crews Tackle Cabin Fires
May 18, 2013, 11:25 AM
2013

Pilots and flight attendants can now learn how to deal with fire and smoke in aircraft using a new training rig installed by TAG Global Training at the group’s London-area Farnborough Airport. The unit represents a business jet cabin, including galley and lavatory, and can start controlled fires in a seat, an in-flight entertainment unit, the toilet and a microwave oven. The automated system, with pre-set training options, can also fill the cabin with smoke. Minerva Simulation Facilities developed it for TAG.

Airbus Corporate Jets Presents Bluejay Cabin
May 18, 2013, 11:25 AM
2013

The Airbus Corporate Jet Center (ACJC), the European consortium’s bizliner completion center in Toulouse, France, is here at EBACE (Booth 7040) presenting a new cabin concept. Engineers at the facility have also found ways to cut weight from its cabin interiors.

Safety Management Is A High Priority At TAG Aviation
May 18, 2013, 11:20 AM
2013

New risk and safety management requirements imposed by the European Aviation Safety Agency are continuing to take up a lot of management time at TAG and other aircraft operators. TAG recently became the first business aviation company to achieve EASA’s stage-two requirements for its safety management system.

Embraer Begins Offering E-195 VIP Shuttle
May 18, 2013, 11:20 AM
2013

“Can we bring back the glory days of flying, like when there was the Pan Am Clipper?”

This is the question that Embraer Executive Jets vice president of interior design, Jay Beever, asked, which led directly to the development of a 32- to 36-seat VIP shuttle concept of the Embraer E-195 regional jet. The Brazilian company’s executive jets division started offering this to both airlines and aircraft charter firms early last month.

TAG Aviation Adapts to the Changing Charter Market
May 18, 2013, 11:15 AM
2013

Among business aviation’s service providers, TAG Aviation is arguably the most understated and least prone to high-profile self-promotion. But the Swiss-based aircraft management and support company has quietly expanded its customer base by emphasizing a highly personalized level of service and an insistence on taking the long-term view, rather than precipitously shifting tack to exploit what all too often can prove to be fleeting opportunities.

U.S. Army Will Evaluate JLENS Over Mid-Atlantic Region
May 17, 2013, 11:50 AM
May 17, 2013

Prime contractor Raytheon expects that the U.S. Army will begin an operational evaluation in the coming fiscal year of its joint land attack cruise missile defense elevated netted sensor system (JLENS), an aerostat-based surveillance system that will monitor a sizeable chunk of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region.

RFP Will Start U.S. Navy’s UCLASS Design Process
May 17, 2013, 11:45 AM
May 17, 2013

The U.S. Navy will likely issue a request for proposals (RFP) in the coming weeks for a 10-month preliminary design phase of the unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike system (UCLASS) program, according to Lockheed Martin, one of the interested contractors.

X-47B Completes First Catapult Launch from Carrier Deck
May 17, 2013, 11:40 AM
May 17, 2013

The U.S. Navy recorded another first on May 14 when it conducted the first catapult launch of the Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator (UCAS-D) from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush under way off the coast of Virginia.

China’s ‘Sharp Sword’ UCAV is Spotted Taxiing
May 17, 2013, 11:35 AM
May 17, 2013

China’s first jet-powered stealth unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), the Lijian or “Sharp Sword,” was recently spotted undergoing taxiing tests in that country. Analysts interpreted the sighting as indicating that the Lijian’s maiden flight is imminent.

Future Turkish Fighter Concepts Revealed at IDEF 13
May 17, 2013, 11:30 AM
May 17, 2013

The international defense industry fair (IDEF 13) held in Istanbul, Turkey, from May 7 to 10 saw the Turkish industry announce a number of developments. The most notable was the revelation of three potential concepts for the TF-X national combat aircraft program, a stealthy aircraft that is ultimately expected to replace the F-16.

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