Thompson Aero Seating, a UK-based supplier of business and first-class seating has announced a plan to invest $8.9 million to develop a new seat crash test facility. The Dynamic Test Facility (DTF) which will serve as an aircraft test simulator at the Thompson brownfield site in Banbridge, County Down is currently in the construction phase.
The start-up began operations in 2016 and is developing a 100-seater, zero-emissions jet converted from the British Aerospace 146 regional aircraft which stopped production in 2001.
Airline passengers are supportive of implementing physical plastic barriers between seats in the cabin to encourage confidence in flying throughout the pandemic, according to a recent panel at the MRO Asia-Pacific virtual conference. Surveys suggested that flight-wary passengers would feel more comfortable with the use of plastic barriers between cabin seats, as they do not
This week's Throwback Thursday feature from the Australian Aviation archive is this November 2008 airtest of the two-seat Jodel.
Airbus has upgraded its assessment of the likely number of passenger aircraft serving Australia, New Zealand and the nations of the South Pacific over the next two decades as the lift in tourism and the rise of the middle class enables more people to take to the skies. The total number of aircraft flying within,
Tigerair Australia will add an extra six seats to its Boeing 737-800 fleet with the installation of new slimline seats. The cabin reconfiguration program with the leather seats from Rockwell Collins Interior Systems (formerly B/E Aerospace) is due to begin in March 2018, Tigerair said on Thursday. As a result, the seat count on the
