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TLD at the Saudi International Airshow
We are delighted to welcoming our customers and friends on our booth at the 2019 Saudi Air Show. All the team had set the scene with our customers in Saudi Arabia for a great TLD GSE exhibition on the tarmac.
Saudi Ground Services great flashy green livery matching the creative and arty fuselages on display!
Indigo completes Taxibot trials on Airbus A320s
Courtesy of By Satish Nandgaonkar, Mumbai Mirror | Feb 20, 2019
Indigo airlines on Tuesday morning became the first Indian Airbus operator to successfully complete trials for Taxibot operations on Airbus A320 aircraft, and India became the only country where performance evaluation trials for Taxibots have been successfully completed on Airbus A320 aircraft.
The trials were conducted shortly past midnight and early hours of Tuesday at the Indira Gandhi International airport. “All possible operational scenarios were successfully enacted in a live environment with Taxibot attached to an A320 aircraft during the four-hour-long performance… read more https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/indigo-completes-taxibot-trials-on-airbus-a320s/articleshow/68083978.cms
TLD and Aerospecialties together at NAIS Moscow 2019
A good example of Alvest integration at the National Aviation Infrastructure Show 2019 exhibition held in Moscow on February 6-7, 2019.
NAIS is a key event in Russia & CIS for showcasing new solutions, technologies and products for civil aviation industry development.
TLD and Aerospecialties attended the exhibition.
AERO Specialties Introduces New JetGo 300 Ground Power Unit
The JetGo 300 is designed to provide continuous power for avionics and to start the engines on all DC turbine and turboprop aircraft. JetGo 300 users benefit from a compact unit, user friendly controls and very low operating costs, with the further advantage of low dBA signature and reduced CO2 emissions. Normally, a diesel GPU four times the size of the JetGo 300 is necessary to deliver the peak amperage for starting large turbines.
No other GPU delivers … https://www.aerospecialties.com/new-jetgo-300/
TPX-200-MT Lego model
When passion and creativity join together the results we get are often great. Adding the pleasure of sharing it with your kid makes this transmission even more thoughtful.
Franck TCHA, one of our TLD Shop Floor Supervisor, made this Lego model of our TPX-200-MT with his son. All with existing parts and their imagination. What is unknown to us is who from the father or the son had encouraged the other? The result is true-to-life!
Thank you Franck for this great model !
Narrow body TaxiBots have arrived at Delhi – Indira Gandhi International airport
The Narrow Body TaxiBot arrived this week at Delhi Indira-Gandhi International airport (DEL).
After Prechecks and operational Training, TLD and their partners IAI and Millennium will support KSU and some of the leading Airlines for field trials and commercial operations.
After more than 350 commercial flights handled at FRA airport, this is a new opportunity to demonstrate the performance of such a green and efficient taxiing in a real airport operation environment.
Product Profile – The ‘Sidewinder’ Cable Carrier System
Aircraft power cabling and aircraft plugs are subjected to extremes of wear, impact damage and rough handling. As a result, power cables and AC plugs are a constant source of problems at busy airports, with any failure potentially having an impact on safety, turn-round times and costs.
The Powervamp ‘Sidewinder’ is a retractable series of arms housing the high frequency cables that provides power to all aircraft while at the terminal. The system has been designed to give airports a simple, reliable and affordable power transfer system and is an essential piece of equipment without which the airport cannot function.
learn more here: https://www.powervamp.com/news/product-profile-the-sidewinder-cable-carrier-system
Adhetec lead in external markings supplier for Boeing
Adhetec is the qualified manufacturer for BMS 10-26 Type XIII and Type XV parts.
Since 2012, we have been supplying all Boeing programs 737 – 737MAX – 767 – 747 – 777 – 787 with exterior mandatory markings, along with exterior decorative graphics such as country flags, alliance logo and full-scale livery decals.
Based on outstanding quality and delivery achievements, Adhetec has earned recognition as a Boeing Performance Excellence Award (BPEA) recipient for 2017. In the continuity, we are also very proud to announce the signature of a licensing agreement with the Boeing Commercial Aircraft.
You now have the opportunity to order all your Boeing parts (technical marking spares and kits, flags, logos, etc…) directly from Adhetec. We have access to part drawings, enabling an easier sourcing, shorter lead times and improved costs. We deliver the original OEM part, with Boeing part number, and a Certificate of Conformity.
ADHETEC designs, manufactures and supplies technical adhesives for aerospace, railway, automotive, industry and high-tech since 1981.
Newly delivered Sichuan Airlines A350
This is It is one of the largest decal permanent livery ever produced and fitted to an aircraft and it made a strong buzz among the plane spotters, as it took off on the 8th of August from Airbus Toulouse to fly to Chengdu, the home base of Sichuan Airlines
ADHETEC was asked to work on this challenging project due to its long term expertise in supplying permanent decal livery solutions for many OEM and airlines worldwide. More than 340 square meter of our patented ADHECAL ®13880 permanent film was necessary to process the special Panda scheme.
Our engineering group worked closely with Airbus which used their 3 D projection to ensure together an excellent rendering of the customer graphics onto the aircraft, anticipating all evolutive areas and technical constraints.
The result: perfectly fitted outstanding vibrant graphics, perfectly fitted encapsulated in the paint system, ready to fly and last for several years like paint would.
The Installation of the 340 square meters was carried out with Adhetec’ support in Toulouse and completed in 4 Days .
The A350-900 special Panda livery is intended for long haul transpacific flights departing from Chengdu to Boston and Auckland
This July month, TaxiBot has taken a new step towards enhancing airports’ future
TLD, IAI entered in an agreement with KSU from India for operating TaxiBot vehicles in New Delhi and Mumbai airports.
As the Indian aviation market is witnessing explosive growth in both aircrafts and passengers traffic (+20% per year over the past three years), Mumbai and New Delhi airports are set to get more environment friendly with TaxiBots. TaxiBot is a semi-robotic vehicle which connects to the aircraft and is controlled by the pilot to taxi the airplane from its airport’s parking position to the runway with no use of the aircraft’s main jet engines. They can reduce air pollution by reducing emissions from aircraft’s engines as well as fuel consumption by a whopping 85%.
Additionally, to these fuel and emissions savings, taxiing with the TaxiBot reduces noise levels by 60% and
foreign object damage by 50% as foreign objects can’t be sucked into the aircraft engines if they are not running.
As well, TaxiBot’s additional benefit is the streamlining and increased throughput of aircraft entering and exiting the terminal area. The Indian government regards the TaxiBot as a significant means for addressing the grave air pollution issues in airports, which are exacerbating due to the continued growth of air transportation.
TaxiBot are manufactured by TLD in their French factory.
Shaul Shahar, IAI EVP and General Manager of IAI’s Military Aircraft Group, commented, “We regard the contract with KSU as a further step in our close collaboration with India in a broad range of areas. We trust the TaxiBot will prove itself effective in reducing air pollution, which is intensifying due to the fast growth of India’s aviation market with the significant savings in fuel, FOD (Foreign Object Damage) and improvement in the gates congestion. The TaxiBot is another example of IAI’s capability in developing unmanned vehicles of all kinds and customizing breakthrough products to customers’ needs. We believe this agreement will open the path for many more significant contracts for this product worldwide.”
Antoine Maguin, 
Chief Executive Officer of TLD Group, said, “We at TLD, with our local partner Millennium, are very excited to participate to the deployment of TaxiBot, in real life conditions, on the fast expanding Indian aviation market. After years of development, heavy testing and certification, for which TLD has worked in cooperation with IAI, the TaxiBot concept and machines have become a reality. It will bring significant benefits to the aviation industry, and in particular strong fuel savings, and to the whole community by improving aviation and airports environmental footprint”.
Yogesh Sethi, Founder of KSU Aviation Private Limited, said, “KSU Aviation Private Limited is excited to be associated with TaxiBot Project and proud to commence commercial operations of the TAXIBOT first time in the world in India. This will be a huge moment of pride and glory for Indian aviation as well as KSU aviation to lead by example how aircrafts will be moved on ground in the future. The use of TaxiBot at Indian Airports in the coming five years will bring about a saving of 1.5 Billion dollars to the Indian airlines and further reduce the environmental damage of greenhouse gases by 4 million tons. This would significantly impact the growth of Aviation industry in India.”
