Honeywell system designed to reduce risk of explosion by preventing ignition of fuel vapour to be tested on 747 Boeing plans to begin flight tests of a fuel tank inerting system on a 747-400 by the ...

FARNBOROUGH, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Parker Aerospace, a business segment of Parker Hannifin Corporation (NYSE: PH), has engaged with Phyre Technologies, Inc. to further develop catalytic inerting ...

GRAHAM WARWICK / WASHINGTON DC Boeing's fast track development of inexpensive system is aimed at reducing chance of repeat of 1996 TWA 800 explosion Boeing is developing an onboard inerting system for ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cobham Mission Systems, the U.S.-based global technology leader in fuel tank inerting systems (FTIS), announced a long-term agreement to provide air separation ...

Parker-Hannifin Corporation 's PH operating arm, Parker Aerospace inked an agreement with Phyre Technologies, Inc. in order to work on developing the latter's patented catalytic inerting technology ...

The development of a new fuel tank inerting system for the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter is underway, with Phyre Technologies successfully completing the prototype testing and demonstration phase of the ...

Nearly nine years after a fuel tank explosion caused the fatal crash of TWA Flight 800, safety officials say little has been done to reduce the flammability of vapors in aircraft fuel tanks. The ...

A team of engineers and technicians spent two months inerting 170 Dahlgren and 6.4-inch Brooke projectiles that Navy divers recovered from the CSS Georgia this summer. After remotely drilling holes in ...

Way back in late 1940, the Soviet MiG-3 fighter entered production with a fuel tank inerting system that used engine exhaust gas pumped into the fuel tanks as fuel was taken out. More than 3,000 of ...

FAA finally takes action on fuel inerting The 14th anniversary of TWA 800 came and went this past July 17.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has quietly decided to loosen stringent fuel-tank safety regulations written after the 1996 fuel-tank explosion that destroyed flight TWA 800 off the coast of ...