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Thomas Rueckert New Head of Aircraft Overhaul Services at Lufthansa Technik

Thomas Rueckert has become head of aircraft overhaul services at Lufthansa Technik. The 45-year-old industrial engineer has replaced Soeren Stark, who has been appointed to the Executive Board of Lufthansa Cargo as COO. In his new function Thomas Rueckert will lead the international overhaul network of Lufthansa Technik with eight sites in Europe, Asia and the Americas. "We're delig...

REMOS AG Partners With Scheme Designers for New GXiS Livery

Ultra-modern, elegant and sleek – that is what the Scheme Designers team of artists set about to capture for the latest member of the REMOS AG family of aircraft, the GXiS, powered by the ROTAX 912iS Sport with electric fuel injection. The new REMOS GXiS promises to be powerful and state-of-the-art, while also being efficient, user friendly and safe. The GXiS is being shown at AERO Fri...

MTU Maintenance signs contract with Mexican VivaAerobus for V2500 overhaul

MTU Maintenance, one of the world’s leading engine maintenance providers, has signed an exclusive 5-year contract with the Mexican low cost carrier VivaAerobus for the maintenance, repair and overhaul of the airline’s seven leased V2500-A5-powered aircraft. The German-based service provider for commercial aero engines has already performed more than 4,000 shop visits for the V2500 e...

Short haul flights will be quieter with Siemens and Airbus electric aircraft

Electric vehicles are getting loads of attention withthe fury of Tesla 3 pre-orders, but wait, look up in the sky! About the same time the new Teslas showing up, Siemens and Airbus may have electric aircraft in the air. The high tech pair set 2020 as the target for demonstration planes. They hope to have passenger aircraft with less than 100 seats powered by hybrid/electric propulsion syst...

Piper and Piper Deutschland to display aircraft at AERO Friedrichshafen

Piper Aircraft Inc. and Piper Generalvertretung Deutschland are collaborating to display aircraft at the upcoming AERO Friedrichshafen 2015, to be held April 15-19. On display will be a single-engine Piper Meridian turboprop, a twin-engine Piper Seneca V, and a Piper Archer DX. “Year after year, AERO Friedrichshafen is where serious general aviation buyers congregate from across Eur...

Bonkers-looking aircraft with 18 rotors take its first crewed flight

Is the Volocopter the 'dawn of a revolution in urban mobility'? The Volocopter, a helicopter-drone hybrid with 18 rotors, took its first manned flight in Southern Germany on March 30th, the company e-volo announced. With e-volo's managing director Alexander Zosel in the cockpit, the truly strange-looking aircraft took to the skies above an airfield, hovered for several minutes, and...

Tigerair W-IFE Enters Revenue Service: Low Cost Carrier, First Class Entertainment

CloudStore by Arconics, the next generation, feature-rich, scalable and cost effective Wireless In-Flight Entertainment (W-IFE) platform, entered revenue service with Tigerair Australia on 23rd March 2015, less than 12 weeks after the contract was executed between Tigerair Australia and Dublin-based Arconics. Arconics customised, certified and deployed CloudStore W-IFE in time for Tigerair&rsqu...

Inflight Revolution Confirmed, PEC AIX 2016

Aviation software company Arconics shares the results of a recent online survey into airline passenger inflight entertainment and connectivity experiences and preferences, at the Passenger Experience Conference, 2016. Key findings: 81% of respondents regularly travel by air (monthly/a couple of times per year), with 7% flying weekly. 33% of respondents fly mainly for business. 100% of...

Victorian man who lost wife and son in Germanwings crash reportedly suing US flight school

An Australian man whose wife and son were among the 150 people killed when Germanwings Flight 9525 was deliberately crashed into the French Alps is reportedly suing the US flight school that trained the individual responsible. Victorian man David Friday is suing Lufthansa’s Airline Training Centre Arizona for failing to detect any problems with Andreas Lubitz, the German co-pilot who caus...

Lufthansa Technik's interior workshops enter into contract manufacturing

The interior workshops of Lufthansa Technik Base Maintenance in Hamburg anticipate opportunities from entering into contract manufacturing of cabin elements for large aircraft manufacturers who are ramping up their production. The extremely flexible workshops at Lufthansa Technik can offer support through their extensive capabilities in engineering, design and production,...

Lufthansa Technik introduces emergency floor path marking system that matches interior

Engineers at Lufthansa Technik have now refined their emergency floor path marking system to be only visible when actually needed. “GuideU CustomFit” can be fully integrated in any carpet and flooring design. It will be introduced to the business community for the first time at the Aircraft Interiors Expo from April 5 – 7 in Hamburg. Torben Biehl, Head of product developme...

Lufthansa: New travel experience in the A350-900

The A350-900 provides Lufthansa passengers with a comfortable traveling experience. With its wider cabin passengers have more room and a generous sense of space. A self-service section in Business Class provides more passenger comfort, plus new seats in economy and larger monitors. Thanks to a special lighting concept, passengers arrive at their destination feeling more rested. “We want our...

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