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Airbus + HP: Taking Innovation To New Heights
White Papers Airbus UK improves simulation capabilities and reduces costs with a high-performance technical computing infrastructure based on Intel Itanium 2-based systems from HP.
[November 2, 2007, 23:00]
Aerospace Leader Airbus Relies On Printronix To Deliver Reliable, High-Performance Printers
White Papers Airbus, a leading aerospace manufacturer company's facility in Hamburg, Germany is responsible for the majority of the development and production of the European Airbus aircraft family. To meet these demands, Airbus relies on Printronix, the...
[September 25, 2004, 0:00]
ArieAir Airbus A321
Downloads This is a custom repaint of Airbus's A321 aircraft. ArieAir is a new Virtual Airline for Microsoft's Flight Simulator X. The repaint contains the official ArieAir Virtual Airlines logo. ArieAir uses Detroit Virtual's server to run.
[April 27, 2007, 10:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Airbus A380 misery continues to spread, with Rolls-Royce now shutting down the Trent 900 engine production plant for a year. The A380 story is one of frustration all round; it flies fine and is progressing with reasonable dispatch through the...
[October 6, 2006, 18:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Congratulations to Airbus, which has created literally high technology by launching the mammoth A380 into the skies above Toulouse. Times have changed since test pilots strapped themselves in for the first flight with nothing but wind tunnel tests...
[April 29, 2005, 20:10]
China To Get In-flight Mobile Service By 2009
News The OnAir service will be installed across Shenzhen Airlines' full fleet of Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 aircraft by mid 2009. Benoit Debains, chief executive of OnAir — which is a joint venture between aircraft manufacturer Airbus and airline...
[September 4, 2007, 9:31]
BMI Promises In-flight Mobile Trials
News BMI intends to test the business case for fleet-wide rollout of an in-flight mobile service on one of its A320 Airbus planes flying out of London's Heathrow airport towards the end of 2006. The trial is being done in conjunction with OnAir, the...
[September 21, 2005, 15:55]
'No Mobiles' To Replace 'no Smoking' Signs On Planes
News The technology, developed by Airbus and Sita joint venture OnAir, will allow passengers to make in-flight mobile calls and send text messages on short-haul flights across Europe at a cost of around $2.50 per minute.
[August 7, 2006, 16:10]
Tech Tsar To Develop Government Strategy
News Gray is currently managing director of Airbus UK. He joined Airbus in 1979. The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) has appointed Iain Gilmour Gray as chief executive of the Technology Strategy Board.
[September 20, 2007, 8:37]
Colubris CEO Departs
News The Connexion project revenue has already been offset by wins in other airframe projects, such as the Airbus A380 project. For example, the Airbus A380 will use Wi-Fi to serve seatback viewing screens, he said.
[September 11, 2006, 17:00]
IPTV Takes Off On Planes With GSM To Follow
News Siemens is already developing a light-weight GSM pico cell and has been contracted to provide this to OnAir, a joint venture launched in February between Airbus and transport application developer SITA.
[July 12, 2005, 11:25]
Dell Admits Indian Mistake
Talkback This was despite a better offer given by the french air-craft manufacturers AIRBUS (with high-end Rolles-Royace engines), to Air India. Even at this point of time AIRBUS is challenging the AIR-INDIA autorities (Govt of India) regaring the fixing...
[September 2, 2005, 7:29]
France Talks Up Its Tech Prospects
News Without the prodding of Charles DeGaulle in the 1960s, "the story of Airbus would have never happened", Gaymard said. Repeating Airbus, however, may be difficult in the global marketplace. There is the sense that we are old fashioned, unproductive...
[May 25, 2005, 9:25]
Midnight On La Rambla
Blog Team ZDNet has successfully decanted itself onto the Gatwick Express, into the EasyJet Airbus of Dreams, shuffled dolefully along the First Giant Queue Of Many to the taxi and into our sumptuously appointed two star palace on La Rambla.
[February 10, 2008, 23:50]
With Boeing?s Help, Delta And Fedex Will Perform In-Flight Trials Of UHF RFID Tags
White Papers Part of the joint effort by Boeing and European aircraft maker Airbus to develop an RFID specification for their suppliers to tag parts used in the construction of their aircraft, the tests follow similar trials the two plane manufacturers carried...
[June 25, 2004, 0:00]
HP Integrity Solutions: Optimizing Business Outcomes
White Papers Airbus, Chevron, Intrado, Royal London and Taifook share their insights on how they have accelerated their growth, performance and reliability, while reducing costs and risk.
[December 13, 2007, 23:00]
Benchmarks Don't Measure Up For New Platforms
Leader Some time next month - the smart money is on 11 April - the latest and by any measure greatest Airbus will depart the tarmac on its first test flight. There is great excitement in the aviation community about this: the A380 is an aircraft of...
[March 23, 2005, 12:30]
Boeing Outlines Tagging Timetable
White Papers Adamant that they will not issue an RFID mandate to their suppliers, U.S.aircraft manufacturer Boeing and its main European rival, Airbus, have given the first indication of a timeframe for when suppliers will be placing RFID tags on parts shipped...
[June 25, 2004, 0:00]
Ryanair Announces In-flight Mobile
News The budget airline announced on Wednesday that it will partner with OnAir, an Airbus and Sita joint in-flight communications venture, which plans to fit the entire Ryanair fleet with technology called Mobile OnAir.
[August 30, 2006, 14:55]
Embedded Computing To Boom In Europe
News Industry group Artemis, whose members include Airbus, Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens, predicts that embedded computing — the technology that sees microprocessors arriving in everything from phones to cars to shop tills — will grow by around 10 per...
[July 5, 2005, 9:05]
