EXPLORING GSE, AIRFIELD EQUIPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE | WWW.AIRSIDEINT.COM SUMMER 2018 #AIRSIDEINT FIRE-FIGHTINGEMERGENCY VEHICLES TECHNOLOGY DEDICATED EXPERTISE IN HANGAR DESIGN ` TRAINING RAMP OPERATORS 00 Airside Cover SUM18.indd 1 16/05/2018 20:42 Untitled-1 1 17/05/2018 13:46 JAMES SHERIDAN SUMMER 2018 | EDITOR’S NOTE Chairman [email protected] PARVEEN RAJA elcome to the Summer 2018 issue of Airside International, in Publisher which we continue with one of the themes of the Spring issue [email protected] of the magazine – ramp safety and security – and consider JUSTIN BURNS W how ramp operators can best be trained in these critical issues. Associate Editor [email protected] Another features analyses the evolving market for that most specialised of TOM WILLIS News Editor airport infrastructure niches: hangars and hangar doors. [email protected] Plus, this issue takes a look at the prospects for autonomous GSE with the IAN TALBOT innovative Yeti system having been trialled on controlling a small fleet of Sales Manager snow-ploughing vehicles at a Norwegian airport; and very successfully too. [email protected] SOHAIL AHMAD With regard to the latest news from airport owner/operators, there is a Conference Sales European bent, as we talk to a range of operators in the UK (Doncaster [email protected] Sheffield Airport owner Peel, Southend Airport’s Stobart Aviation and Manchester Airport’s Manchester Airport Group) and Germany (Stuttgart GEMMA KEEN and Munich Airport’s operators) about the big plans they have for their Events Coordinator [email protected] respective gateways. SHOBHANA PATEL We also talk to a used GSE supplier, AVIACO, and a well-established new Head of Finance GSE supplier in the form of ITW GSE; big ramp handlers Swissport, Menzies [email protected] and Çelebi; an airline, Germania; and a number of technology suppliers that SHELDON PINK support GSE operators, including Honeywell, to find out about their role in Creative Director the airside business and their plans for the future. [email protected] Our regular Buyer’s Assessment piece concerns British Airway’s decision to NENAD PANIC employ a number of electrically powered, remote-controlled Mototok tugs to Graphic Designer [email protected] handle its short-haul operations at Terminal 5A at London Heathrow. Is that a glimpse into the future for aircraft tugs? 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It has made some significant changes PANTHER 8x8. L over the last few years in response to shfting market “The highlights of these developments can be demands, as the company’s head of global product summarised in the statement: ‘Faster. Stronger. Safer’, management, Michael Kaiser, explains. meaning more performance (driving and pump “We have reworked our major ARFF products, mainly performance) and increased engine performance.” the PANTHER. In 2013 we launched the PANTHER 6x6 There is no shortage of demand for Rosenbauer’s key S – a narrow version of the PANTHER. This product was offerings. Indeed: “Demand for the PANTHER is steadily added as new to the portfolio. Then, in 2015, we launched increasing,” Kaiser notes. “The overall world market seems to stay on a certain level but due to lot of improvements in the new model, we have managed to increase our market share. Up to now, we have delivered more than 1,600 trucks and most of them are still in service.” Models other than the company’s 8x8 vehicle are also proving popular, and together they make for a rounded offering to the ARFF market. “Th ere is the PANTHER 6x6 S – Rosenbauer’s PANTHER 8x8 4 AIRSIDE INTERNATIONAL | SUMMER 2018 04-07 Emergency Vehicles.indd 4 22/05/2018 19:08 EMERGENCY VEHICLES | FEATURE BRISTOL AIRPORT GOES WITH KRONENBURG FIRE THE UK’S Bristol Airport has commissioned into service the standards and accommodates a driver and three crew, while fi rst of three purpose-built MAC CT009 6x6 fi re engines the seats have SCBA brackets with integral headrests. scheduled for delivery this year from Netherlands-based Kronenburg’s ‘top hamper’ design incorporates integral Kronenburg Fire. tanks holding 12,000 litres of water, plus 1,500 litres of foam, These new fire-fighting vehicles represent one part of and was specifi ed with a dedicated monitor platform. The an ongoing investment in fire-fighting capability at the body features easy engine access and eight large lockers, with airport – which has already seen the completion of a new the high-level lockers incorporating Kronenburg’s Kangaroo extensively equipped fire-training ground, the delivery of Rescue Equipment Deployment System (REDS), described by a new fire command and control vehicle and the recent the manufacturer as an innovative powered shelving system breaking of ground on a new state-of-the-art purpose built permitting low-level equipment accessibility. six-bay fire station which is scheduled for completion early Bristol Airport specifi ed its fi rst tender of the order to have in 2019. a Godiva fi re pump, plus a roof-mounted dual output monitor Kronenburg’s fi re-fi ghting and crash rescue vehicles are delivering up to 6,000 litres per minite (lpm) and a throw of operational in many countries worldwide and the company over 90 metres, with a bumper turret capable of discharging was, it notes, chosen to supply Bristol Airport with new fi re- 1,900 lpm. Additionally, there are to be 50kg dry chemical fi ghting vehicles following an extensive evaluation process powder trolleys mounted on drop-down lockers. and the completion of a competitive tendering process. Another UK fi rst for Bristol Airport will be delivery of The MAC CT009 6x6 airport crash tender delivered to Kronenburg’s Stingray domestic fi re-fi ghting vehicle in late Bristol Airport is the first of its kind in the UK, and the first Spring this year, followed by a second MAC CT009 ARFF ARFF vehicle in the UK to make use of a purpose-built Titan vehicle later in the year. T36-650 6x6 ARFF vehicle chassis. This crash tender is Kronenburg’s MAC CT009 range of airport rescue equipped with a Mercedes Benz OM 502 LA 700bhp Euro and fire-fighting vehicles are available in 4x4, 4x4 air- 5 diesel engine, Allison automatic transmission and coil transportable, 6x6 and 8x8 configurations, with different spring suspension. options to meet customers’ specific requirements, The CT009 crew safety cabin features a large glass surface including twin engines, independent suspension, REDS with panoramic vision, easy crew access and wide opening rescue equipment deployment system and a HRET option doors. The distinctive cabin exceeds ECE R29 crash test with a piercing-tip and monitor.. QQQ STAND B22 Total Aviation Solutions We offer a first class range of products and services that you can rely on. Including fully We are the sole UK distributors customisable incident response vehicles including the inimitable Oshkosh Striker. of Oshkosh airport products. THE WORLD TRUSTS TERBERG SUMMER 2018 | AIRSIDEINT.COM 5 04-07 Emergency Vehicles.indd 5 22/05/2018 19:08 FEATURE | EMERGENCY VEHICLES Oshkosh produces the much-in- demand Striker ARFF vehicle a smaller version of the PANTHER which can easily be used CHANGING DEMAND PATTERNS for fire-fighting outside the airports (but still stationed on At Rosenbauer, they have seen certain identifiable changes in an airport). the patterns of demand for ARFFs. For example, Kaiser points “For smaller airports (Fire CAT below 8), there is the to increased demand for environmental friendly vehicles.