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Crystal Cabin Awards The “Oscars” of Aircraft Interiors
The Crystal Cabin Award - Hamburg’s innovation prize for aircraft cabin concepts and products - has attracted candidates from all around the world since its inception in 2007. This year, a total of 63 entries were received from 12 different countries. 21 of them reached the final round, three in each category. “The final was once again very close and very exciting,” reports Christian Koerfgen, Vice President Product Management & Innovation at Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Chairman of the Judging Panel, which is made up of renowned academic experts, engineers, representatives of the aircraft manufacturers and airlines as well as specialist journalists. Koerfgen: “We have seen convincing, visionary concepts. The Judging Panel has discussed the entries at great length and, in the end, reached a fair decision.” First prize in the category Passenger Comfort went to Dasell Cabin Interior GmbH for the product “HILA – high integrated flexible lavatory”. The Hamburg company won over the Judging Panel with a flexible space concept for on-board toilets. As soon as the aircraft reaches cruising altitude, the cabin crew can swiftly enlarge the lavatory in a few simple steps. Extra space is taken from the cross-aisle area near the main door, which is only used during boarding but not during flight. The trophy in the category Industrial Design / Interior Concept went to Teague of Seattle. The Integrated Smart Monitor, developed by the US firm in collaboration with Panasonic and Weber Aircraft is an ultra-slimline, lightweight seat with fully integrated In-Flight Entertainment System. In the Greener Cabin, Health and Safety category, Norduyn won the day. Together with LSG Sky Chefs, the company from Montreal, Canada, developed a new type of aviation trolley entirely made of composites, which is significantly lighter, better insulated, sturdier, has fewer moving parts and is therefore easy to track and trace, thus optimising operating times. Airbus won a trophy in the Material and Components category for its Digital Cabin Logbook (DCL). One of the main advantages of DCL is standardised cabin defect reporting. The cabin crew selects cabin defects from a standard defect catalogue, which is customised according to cabin configuration, with a graphical user interface guiding the user to localise the cabin defect. Defect reports are transmitted to ground
The winners are from left till right: Oumaro Sodore (Bishop), Thomas Koehler (LSG Skychef), Patrick Philips (NORDUYN), Mathieu Boivin (NORDYN), Jens Kulenkamp (Airbus), Neil James (Panasonic), Holger Kuhlmann (Airbus), Hasko Rose (iDS), Esther Glaesker (Fachhochschule Hannover), Michael Waller (Dasell), Chris Pirie (Teague) Rich Salter (Lumexis) Don Sathern (Lumexis)
control whilst the aircraft is still flying. The logistics for repair can commence before landing, thus avoiding delays to the next take-off. The Entertainment and Communication category was won by Lumexis Corporation from the USA with its Fiber-To-The-ScreenTM system, the first fully fiber-optics based In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) system. The seat box and half of the other boxes required by legacy systems are eliminated. Huge bandwidth is provided to each individual seat, so that future functionality can be added over the 30-year life of the aircraft. The system, integrated in the seat, reduces the weight and, as a result, the cost of ownership by half. This year’s new University category generated
great excitement. The trophy – and 5,000 euros in prize money – went to a graduate of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover. Esther Glaesker’s
Com.pax system is an aircraft seat for wheelchair-bound passengers. The
Com.pax 2-in-1 concept offers a more comfortable way of travelling for disabled passengers. The mobile aircraft seat is waiting at the check-in counter for the passenger, who then travels with the seat directly to the base element within the aircraft, where the seat is clicked into the lock-position safety catch mechanism. The Judges’ Commendation Prize this year went to Bishop GmbH from Hamburg, Germany, for a 1cm seat rail. The 1cm seat rail is the world’s first metric seat rail designed with
a distance of 1cm between two consecutive attachment holes on the seat track. The seat rail is sturdier than conventional 1” (2.54cm) seat rails and makes it possible to install seats and other elements with double the normal precision. The number of seat rows in the aircraft can also be increased, resulting in increased revenue for airlines.
This one-of-a-kind innovation prize is awarded every year by the Hamburg-based association Crystal Cabin Award e. V. on the occasion of the Aircraft Interiors Expo. Companies as well as teams from universities or colleges that have developed ground-breaking concepts or products for aircraft interiors, should save the date for the next call for entries: The application period for the world’s only international award for excellence in aircraft interior innovation will run from 4 October 2010 to 15 November 2010. Sponsors are also warmly welcome to promote this competition and to provide encouragement to the brilliant minds behind all aircraft cabin innovations. The Crystal Cabin Award 2010 was supported by Airbus, the Aircraft Interiors Expo trade fair (Reed Exhibitions), the magazine Aircraft Interiors International, Bishop GmbH, DIEHL Aerosystems Holding GmbH, FERCHAU AVIATION Division, Hamburg Marketing GmbH, HTG Media Hamburg, Jetliner Cabins and SGS Group Germany.
For details, please click to
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award.com
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