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Biman Bangladesh Airlines More Vickers hydraulics orders ATP for Airbus Airlines and Loganair's intensive manifolds, three solenoid valves UK schedules. LAR of Portugal and a priority valve. has two ATPs in service on the In addition, Airbus 330/340 Biman, the flag carrier of Bang busy Lisbon-Oporto Airbridge Vickers Systems has secured con work already in progress at Vickers ladesh, had ordered three Advanced and SATA of the Azores will tracts worth a potential $33 million includes items for the landing Turboprop (ATP) regional airliners shortly introduce ATP onto its to supply hydraulic equipment for gear, for providing hydraulic and from British Aerospace Com island-hopping services. the latest European Airbus air electrical power in emergency, mercial Aircraft. In the USA, Air Wisconsin will liners. Contracts finalised with and for trimming the horizontal The order is valued at over introduce ATP onto its United Airbus Industrie partner Aero stabiliser. US$40 million and includes a Express hub and spoke operations spatiale of France cover five Each A 330/340 landing gear comprehensive spares, training serving Chicago and Washington major items, worth $55,000 per will benefit from two Vickers and support package. It is a major Dulles Airports in the first quarter aircraft set, for the latest Airbus Sterer pitch trimmer relief valves, breakthrough for the ATP into the of 1990. airliners, the A 330/340. The used in pitching the wheel as Asian market and is the largest The ATP is designed and manu programme is expected to realise semblies for landing, and four ever commercial transaction con factured at British Aerospace's orders for 600 aircraft. hydraulic fuses to prevent system cluded between Bangladesh and factories at Chadderton and Vickers, a leader in advanced over-pressurisation in a heavy the United Kingdom. Woodford, near Manchester. fluid power and motion control, touch-down. These are supplied Biman selected the ATP because Powered by two Pratt and Whitney will supply the primary and under contract to Airbus partner of its larger capacity and superior of Canada PW126A turboprops, auxiliary hydraulic pumps to British Aerospace. economics over the competition. coupled to advanced, six-bladed maintain 3000 psi hydraulic Emergency hydraulic and elec Deliveries of the 70-seat ATP propellors of joint British Aero pressure for powering flying con trical power come from a hydraulic will commence in April 1990 and space/Hamilton Standard design, trols and other aircraft systems. motor and 8 kVA ac/d c generator the aircraft will replace smaller the ATP is recognised as the For each aircraft Vickers Fluid unit which would be driven by a quietest large turboprop in the and older generation F27 aircraft Power Inc will supply four ram-air turbine (RAT) in emer world. on domestic routes and on regional engine-driven primary pumps and gency. This high-performance service s into neighbouring This order from Biman brings thre e electric motor-driven Vickers constant-speed hydraulic countries. total orders and options for the auxiliary pumps (one for each motor and generator unit develops ATP is now proving popular ATP to over 50 aircraft with eight hydraulic system). The P3-300-10 a peak electrical power of 9.4 with crews and passengers alike in airlines. engine-driven pump ordered is the kVac and 50 A at 28 Vdc. A Europe where it is deployed on latest Vickers model offering an compact reverse-ported motor British Airways Highlands Division British Aerospace (Com unprecedented reliability of 25,000 weighing a mere 6.21b (2.8kg) routes and also on the Internal mercial Aircraft) Ltd., Airlines hours MTBUR (mean time bet operates the horizontal stabiliser German Service routes serving Division, Marketing Operations ween unscheduled removals) — for accurate trim control. Berlin. Centre, PO Box 81, Hatfield equivalent to some three and a Vickers equipment already in Elsewhere in Europe, ATP Herts. AL10 9PL. Tel 0707 half years in representative airline service on the A320 Airbus pro serves on British Midland, Manx service. The pump, of variable vides all primary and auxiliary displacement pressure-compens power for the aircraft's triple ated in-line piston design, can hydraulic systems, and a RAT- displace three cu in/rev (49.12 driven emergency hydraulic/- Racal Recorders wins large ml/rev). electrical generator. The A 320 The Vickers Sterer company also has four flap-slat driven USAF contract will supply items crucial to the motors and a flow by-pass valve data. The recorder enables flight aircraft's hydraulic system. Each associated with RAT starting. testing engineers to extract vital aircraft will have three ground Vickers also supplies equipment information from a large volume Racal Recorders Inc has won a for A 300 and 310 aircraft. of data. Also, when transient data three year contract from Edwards provide the required repetition. To meet Airbus requirements, is needed for analysis and the Air Force Base, California, for Automatic calibration and Vickers is upgrading its facilities onset time cannot be predicted, for system integration and test at 100 high technology wideband equalisation is the central feature the long recording time available instrumentation recorders. The Portsmouth, UK. Development with the Storehouse is a significant of the Storehouse concept. Costly, potential value of the order exceeds and manufacture will take place benefit. time-consuming and error-inducing $6 million. Racal Recorders Inc, in both UK and USA. European When data is not generated at a manual calibration and equalisa based in California, is part of the tion of individual channels are content for the Airbus contracts is rate suitable for analytical instru international Racal group of elec completely eliminated. The equi high. ments, the Storehouse recorder tronics and security companies. valent function is performed auto can be used to expand or contract Vickers Systems Ltd., During the first year of the the time base of the data to match matically in about three minutes contract Racal will supply up to the system's capability. For non- for record or replay. Larchwood Avenue, Bedhampton, 40 Storehouse model instrumen repetitive testing that requires Havant, tation recorders to be used at the more than one data pass for Racal Recorders Inc, 4 Good Hampshire. PO9 3QN. Edwards Air Flight Test Center analysis, such as in destructive year Street, Irvine, California Tel 0705 487214. for collecting critical performance testing, the recorder is able to 92718 USA. AIRCRAF T ENGINEERING — February 1990 33
Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology – Emerald Publishing
Published: Feb 1, 1990
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